Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: > I have been having the following problem with debconf in the past week: > > root@expresso> apt-get install debconf > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Sorry, debconf is already the newest version. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 224 not > upgraded. > 2 packages not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. > Setting up debconf (1.1.30) ... > Use of uninitialized value in exists at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29. This probably indicates that your debconf database has gotten corrupted somehow. Please tar up and send me a copy of /var/cache/debconf/* You can attempt to repair the problem by running /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl as root. If that fails, you can just blow away /var/cache/debconf/*. But do send me copy first so I can investigate what went wrong. > As you can see, there is another problem with pcmcia-cs, but I do not > want to upgrade that one as I hang my system each time I do it, > requiring me to fsck my disks :( That's should be treated in another > mail... It's possible of course that this hang caused some disk or file corruption that is at the root of your problem with debconf. I do try to sync the disk after writing out the debconf database though. -- see shy jo
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