Re: debconf? problems

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

stan wrote:
>I'm having problems with the configuration choices presented while
>installing packages from dselect (woodu). Basicly the screen becomes 
>blue, and the data presented is put on the screen in what seems to
>be raw mode.
>
>In an effort to fix this, I decied to try doing dpkg-reconfigure debconf.
>This resulted in the entire screen becoming blue (console mode), and I had
>to do ^jreset^j to get it back to a sane mode.
>
>So, it looks like my problem is with debconf, or slang, right?

I'm guessing that you might have the old, broken, slang1-utf8 package
installed, perhaps? Replace it with slang1a-utf8 and the situation
should improve.

(It could be something else, though.)

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]