dist-upgrade: perl can't modify goto in lvalue
G'Day,
Great news that woody is stable, such great news I though upgrading my
server would be called for. HOWEVER after I had down loaded the packages
required to upgrade the system I encountered the following:
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root@aztec:~# apt-get -u dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
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Specific Packages Removed
The following packages will be upgraded
ntpdate nvi oidentd original-awk perl-5.005 perl-5.005-base php3-dev php4
Specific Packages Removed
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266 packages upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/96.9MB of archives. After unpacking 38.4MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine return at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near "}"
Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 3.
...propagated at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/base.pm line 18.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Iterator.pm line 5.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm line 8.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 4.
) -- aborting
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true
root@aztec:~#
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How can I fix this so that I can continue the upgrade?
This is the message that is now produced every time I run apt-get -u
dist-upgrade, but it resembles the one I originally received.
Thanks in advance,
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