Re: Borked update
You could try re-installing gnome then remove gnome-session and
gnome-control-center, that should pretty much put a stake through it's
bloated little green heart, even if it doesn't remove all of the body
parts.
As far as your comment about downgrading to testing...can you do that?
I mean, I know you can tell it to focus on testing but its going to be a
while and hard to tell when that actually happens. I think you are
going to have to wait till testing passes unstable on every package,
which conceivably might not happen till Sarge goes stable, though most
of it should within a few months.
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 00:12, Katipo wrote:
> 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 /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)?
> >
> >
> >
> Hello Martin,
>
> Looks as though we are in the same boat, so lets get something going here.
> I'm in the process of stripping down Gnome 2.4, and it is a minefield of
> interdependencies.
> I know that nautilus-media and the nautilus package are dependent, so if
> you install the package nautilus that may help with nautilus-media.
> I've purged both nautilus and nautilus-media so far, If I need that type
> of file manager, gmc will do it, and there are better multimedia
> packages than nautilus-media.
>
> The only other thing that I have been able to glean so far, as I've just
> started, is the gnome dependency on libgnome2-perl.
>
> For the rest, the impression is the problem is with debconf, from the
> downgrade.
> Have you tried a reinstall of debconf testing?
> Regards,
>
> David.
>
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