Bug#255193: related to ucf handling, it seems
reassign 255193 debconf
merge 255193 247849
stop
Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: tetex-extra
> Version: 2.0.2-9
> Severity: important
> Followup-For: Bug #255193
>
> This seems to be related to the ucf handling. This is happening
> to me since a long time now:
>
> # /usr/share/tetex-base/setup-ucf -extra
> Can't call method "description" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 76, <GEN0> line 1.
> #
>
> I would like to help on debugging this, if possible, though I
> tried to go deeper on this problem and was no able.
>
> The severity should be important, though, so I'll raise it.
The reason seems to be a corruption of the debconf database (see bug
#247849 with which I merge this. Probably running
/usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl will help you out. In the previous bug
report on this, a (frequently) overfull /var partition was the likely
cause.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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