Re: debconf? problems

[stan <stanb@awod.com>]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:06:26PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
> 
Good call, that was it. Today's updare fixed it.

Thanks!

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