Re: brokenness somewhere in netbase or dpkg (or apt?)
Ari Heitner <aheitner@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
This is an already-reported and recently-fixed bug in the new
(potato/unstable) "debconf" utility. Try installing the latest
debconf first and see if that makes the rest of it work.
The latest as of today is: debconf (0.1.53) unstable; the bug you
encountered was apparently fixed in debconf 0.1.50 -- see the debconf
changelog for details and bug numbers.
> Hi,
>
> A couple of days ago when I apt-get upgraded, it gave me a new version
> of netbase, 3.16-3. When it got to the install part, it ran its setup
> script and started asking me questions about my networking config (which
> surprised me -- why didn't it just use the config that was already
> there?).
>
> I answered the questions and continued. It gave me an error and quit. I
> put a hold on my previous version of netbase, 2.16-2, and retried to
> apt-get upgrade. Now I get:
>
> templestowe:~# apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
> librpm1 lyx netbase rpm
> 68 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/21.2MB of archives. After unpacking 10.3MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> Can't use string ("ARRAY(0x8231354)") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs"
> in use at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Element/Dialog/Select.pm line 46,
> <GEN0> chunk 5.
> E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (29)
> E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt
>
> Not that I know any perl, but that line is in this file:
>
> # If it is more than will fit on the screen, just display the prompt
> # first in a series of message boxes.
> if ($lines > $screen_lines - 2) {
> $this->frontend->showtext($text);
> # Now make sure the short description is displayed in the
> # dialog they actually enter info into.
> ($text, $lines, $columns)=$this->frontend->sizetext(
> $this->question->description);
> }
>
> my $default=$this->question->value;
> my @params=();
> #-----the below is line #46
> my @choices=@{$this->question->choices};
>
>
>
> I don't know if netbase is actually the problem at all -- it also gave me
> a new version of dpkg, 1.4.1.13, and the error seems more likely to be
> coming from there.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions/comments/snide remarks?
>
> Please cc: me on any list posts.
>
>
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Ari Heitner
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