Re: Ouch, debconf stopped working
Hmm, tried upgrading debconf again and now it works... strange...
ok, never mind my previous mail :-)
Nico
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:03:13PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> Ok, ok, I know I should have known better. I upgraded to
> unstable/testing some time ago, a few days ago I noticed
> X4.x was finaly in unstable so I upgraded again. Only to
> find out debconf can't live with a recent perl upgrade.
> Now the only thing I get is something like:
>
> Setting up nis (3.9-4) ...
> Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine return at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near "}"
> Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 3.
> ...propagated at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/base.pm line 18.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Iterator.pm line 5.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm line 8.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 5.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 5.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 22.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 22.
> dpkg: error processing nis (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> nis
>
> Unfortunately I can't remove perl since it is kind of
> vital :-). And it doesn't seem to be possible to reinstall
> perl because then apt-get tells me perl is already
> up-to-date. Dito for the debconf package.
>
> Any ideas? I'm kind of lost here :-(
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Nico
>
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"It has been said that there are only two businesses that
refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and
the computer industry."
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Nico De Ranter
Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B)
Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne)
1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth
Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86
e-mail: nico.deranter@sonycom.com
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