Re: Need dpkg expert
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:31:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> This problem goes back about 4 months; I've posted a few times and
> gotten some valuable responses, but nothing that's helped.
>
> My problem is that once when trying to uinstall gdm the process was
> halted mid-stream. Ever since then, several packages refuse to install
> or uninstall, such as:
>
> Setting up man-db (2.3.20-13) ...
> dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Your debconf database is broken in some exciting way. Backing up and
moving aside /var/cache/debconf/config.dat and
/var/cache/debconf/templates.dat may help, although Joey may have some
more cunning solution.
> One of the valuable hints was to put "set -x" on the second line of one
> of these scripts.
Useful in general, but for debconf problems you have to add it to the
.config script as well and/or set DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer in the
environment.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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