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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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