Re: debarchiver and ehterconf problem at apt-get dist-upgrade woody to testing
W)ireless W)inds Support wrote:
> i have two problems. Both are coming with apt-get dist-upgrade. I only
> want to update the system from woody to sarge. All packages, without
> debarchiver and etherconf, are installed correctly.
>
> The problems:
>
> debarchiver: the install progress stops after ?Setting up debarchiver
> (0.1.1) ...?. After about a half hour with seeing that the system do
> nothing I pressed ctrl + c to stop installing this package.
>
> Etherconf comes after debarchiver and shows me the following problem:
> Setting up etherconf (1.17) ...
> hostname: name too long
> Missing end line at blib/lib/ConfHelper.pm (autosplit into
> blib/lib/auto/ConfHelper/getotherareas.al) line 222, <GEN0> line 11.
> dpkg: error processing etherconf (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
> I found out that the problem with etherconf is reported as a bug
> (Bug#192127). But I don´t find any solutions.
What if you purge both packages ("apt-get remove --purge"), make sure
"apt-get dist-upgrade" doesn't want to upgrade anything else, and then
reinstall them?
Adam
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