dist-upgrade fails w/ parse error in /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm
Hi!
I was/am running potato and tried a
dist-upgrade after a
s/stable/testing/ in apt.sources.
Here 's what I get:
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
freetype-tools gcc-doc gnome-gturing librpm1 libxfont-xtt locale-zh
python-base task-chinese-s task-python tetex-lib
tfm-arphic-bkai00mp xcontrib xlib6g-dev xmanpages xpm4g xsm zh-trans
The following NEW packages will be installed:
abiword-common abiword-gtk autoconf2.13 autotools-dev bind9-host
console-common cpp-2.95 defoma docbook-xml expect expectk
g++-2.95 g77-2.95 gcc-2.95 gconf gettext-el gnome-mime-data groff-base
gs-common icewm-common ifupdown imagemagick ipchains klogd
libbonobo2 libbz2-1.0 libcap1 libcapplet1 libcupsys2 libdb3 libdb3-dev
libdb3-util libdns5 libdps1 libefs1 libesmtp5 libexpat1
libfreetype6 libgal19 libgconf11 libgimpprint1 libgnome-vfs-common
libgnome-vfs0 libguile9 libhz0 libisc4 libkpathsea3 liblcms
libldap2 libltdl3 liblwres1 libmagick5 libnetpbm9 liboaf0 libpcap0 libpcre3
libperl5.6 libplot libpspell-ispell1 libpspell4
librpm4 libsasl7 libscrollkeeper0 libssl0.9.6 libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
libtabe2 libttf2 libungif4g libwmf0.2-2 libxaw6 libxaw7
libxml2 libxslt1 net-tools netcdfg3 netkit-inetd netkit-ping oaf octave2.0
perl perl-doc perl-modules perl-suid portmap python
python2.1 python2.1-doc scrollkeeper sgml-base sgml-data tcl8.3 tk8.3
vnc-common xlibs xlibs-dev xmhtml1 xserver-common-v3
The following packages have been kept back
balsa gdk-imlib-dev gedit gnome-core gnome-help gnome-panel
gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-utils gnumeric
ttf-arphic-bkai00mp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp
ttf-arphic-gkai00mp xcingb xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base
xfonts-cmex-big5p xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-intl-chinese
xfonts-intl-chinese-big xfonts-scalable
337 packages upgraded, 97 newly installed, 17 to remove and 23 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/198MB of archives. After unpacking 99.6MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
94% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at
/usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, <TEMPLATES> chunk 3.
E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
Is there a workaround ?
Please help.
Thanks,
Sebastian
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