RE: A problem
Have you tried to use dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/perl-XXXX (5.6
something) whatever is in the cache to install before you continue with
the apt-get dist-upgrade? That may help get things moving again.
--mike
On 08 Aug 2001 18:05:37 -0400, adcarlson@mailandnews.com wrote:
> I'm in the process of trying to apt-get dist-upgrade by Debian system from
> Potato to Woody-Testing, and seem to have stumbled across the "roadblock"
> shown below that has limited my progress...
>
> If anyone has any suggestions on how this matter might be resolved it
> would be much appreciated. Early on I thought it was a Perl problem, but that
> turned out (to my knowledge) to be a Perl problem that developed in the
> apt-get upgrade process where Perl seemed to get partially deleted.
>
> 97% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at
> /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, <TEMPLATES> chunk 3.
> (in cleanup) Can't call method "DESTROY" on an undefined value at
> /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Question.pm line 251, <TEMPLATES> line 3 during
> global destruction.
> E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code (29)
> E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
>
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