Re: Upgrade Sarge to Sid failed ?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Tim Raats wrote:
> Hello today ive upgraded Sarge to Sid. But know I have a few problems.
>
> The first problem is, when GDM doesnt show up you get a warning in 
> terminal. But I cant read is because its full of weird symbols.
We'll need more detail on this one.


> The second problem is when I do apt-get install <Program> I get the 
> follow output:
>
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde
> debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl 
> /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 
> /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at 
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/Wizard.pm line 7, <> line 3.)
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
>
>
> How do I repair this ?

If I understand correctly what you're saying above, X is not starting, 
and therefore the KDE interface to debconf can't start. Reconfigure 
debconf to use dialog instead of KDE (at least for now) with 
"dpkg-reconfigure debconf".


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Kent West
westk@acu.edu