Re: potato 2 woody upgrade problem
On Friday 02 November 2001 20:26, Eric Richardson wrote:
> Hi,
> Added woody to sources.list, apt-get update, apt-get -u dist-upgrade and
> then waited a long time even on a DSL line to download and then the
> following happened.
>
> Get:489 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main xsitecopy 1:0.9.10-1
> [151kB]
> Fetched 229MB in 1h3m28s (60.1kB/s)
>
> 86% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at
> /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, <TEMPLATES> chunk 2.
> E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code
> (29) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
>
> Looks like after everything downloaded. Now I don't really have much of
> a clue what to do. This is my first try with testing but have been
> running potato for over a year with no problems.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Eric :-)
I've had similar and have been able to resume everything by installing
debconf (and it's depends) prior to the dist-upgrade.
apt-get install debconf apt-utils has corrected it for me in the past.
hth
bob
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