Debconf trouble
Trouble when upgrading sid, suggestions welcome on how to fix.
blackbird:~# aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
console-common
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/38.3kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Use of uninitialized value in exists at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29, <> line 1.
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs
shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Preconfiguring packages ...
debconf: warning: possible database corruption. Will attempt to repair
by adding back missing question console-common.
debconf: warning: possible database corruption. Will attempt to repair
by adding back missing question console-data.
Use of uninitialized value in exists at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 66, <GEN1> line 3.
Use of uninitialized value in exists at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29, <GEN1> line 3.
Use of uninitialized value in exists at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 66, <GEN1> line 3.
Use of uninitialized value in exists at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29, <GEN1> line 3.
Can't call method "choices" on an undefined value at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 85, <GEN1> line 3.
(Reading database ... 87461 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace console-common 0.7.32 (using
.../console-common_0.7.33_all.deb) ...
Use of uninitialized value in exists at
/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29.
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Nick
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