On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 01:02:32PM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer wrote:
> After a small fling with Gnome, and trying to remove it, I'm having
> trouble getting my system updated. I've been flailing around a fair
> bit, so a reinstall may be my only option at this point. But perhaps
> someone here could show me a way to avoid that. I was running
> unstable, and got this problem; downgrading to testing didn't make the
> problem go away.
>
> The problem seems to be with nautilus-media, debconf, or perl, or all
> three - I'm not sure. Here's what I see:
>
> $ dpkg -C
> The following packages are in a mess due to serious problems during
> installation. They must be reinstalled for them (and any packages
> that depend on them) to function properly:
> nautilus-media Multimedia goodies for Nautilus
>
> The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems
> configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using
> dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect:
> debconf Debian configuration management system
>
>
>
> # dpkg --configure -a
> Setting up debconf (1.4.17) ...
> Unquoted string "functions" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Noninteractive.pm line 1.
> syntax error at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Noninteractive.pm line 1, near "}{"
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 11.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
Look at the output of 'dpkg -l perl\*'.
One of the first two letters of a line should indicate if you have a
problem with perl installation. If so then configuring it with
'dpkg --configure' or reinstalling it may help.
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 11.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/AutoSelect.pm line 6.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/AutoSelect.pm line 6.
> Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 6.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 6.
> dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> debconf
>
>
> I get the same error messages about 'Unquoted string "functions" may
> clash...' when trying to upgrade or reinstall nautilus-media. And
> these errors seem to cause no package to be upgraded.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction, or is my system so hosed
> at this point that a reinstall is in order (it would be a first)?
>
--
Jerome
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