Re: Template Parse Error
I have had this same problem with a perfectly updated 2.2r3 that was
just installed. At the time I shelved it as it was not something I had
time for, but now I am back trying to upgrade from potato to woody
again. Anyone have any info?
Thanks,
Bill
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001, David Goodenough wrote:
> I am tying to install Woody on a laptop so that I can
> install XFree 4.0.3 and then upgrade it to 4.1 with an
> extra fix as currently the SIS driver does not handle
> my laptop's LCD properly. I also need to be running
> a 2.4 kernel as otherwise the Ethernet NIC does not
> work.
>
> I installed 2.2r3 from CD, and then copied down the
> 2.4 upgrade DEBs and cut a CD. From this I installed
> what is now a running, but text only, system.
>
> I tried to download 4.1 source but for some odd reason it
> will not build (make World works but make install
> complains about missing files even though they are
> actually present on the system). However in discussion
> with the Xpert list at Xfree86.org I found that others
> were having success with Woody as a base rather than
> stable 2.2r3.
>
> So having had an /etc/apt/sources.list which was entirely
> CDROM based, I updated it to point at uk.debian.org
> to download woody. The entry looks like:-
>
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>
> and I ran dselect which said that all manner of things
> needed to be updated.
>
> It says that 233 packages need to be upgraded, 89 newly
> installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded. It then starts
> scanning packages, gets to 90% and complains about
> a Template parse error near "" at
> /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm
> line 102, <TEMPLATES> chunk 2.
>
> So I did a search on the archive for this list and found
> advice (from the 17th July) to updrage DebConf on its
> own using apt-get install DebConf which duely went
> through (after one problem which a rerun seemed to
> cure).
>
> Unfortunately the problem still persists, and I can not
> get any further. Now it might be that I am missing
> something sources.list file which I need, it might be
> that the 2.4 upgrade package has mucked things up,
> more likely I have mucked something up.
>
> Anyone got any ideas as to how to proceed?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> David
>
> BTW, it would be useful if the various Debian
> mirrors included sample apt/sources.list entries
> on there websites. If they already do then I have
> failed to find them and it would be useful to have
> a pointer.
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