Re: Upgrades blocked by half-installed package, libpam0g

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:35:39 +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:54:23AM +0000, John O'Hagan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm running lenny.
> > 
> > The power failed on my laptop during a recent upgrade about a week
> > ago. Don't know if this is why, but attempts to upgrade or install any
> > new packages since then fail because aptitude (or rather dpkg) chokes
> > on repeated attempts to configure libpam0g:
> > 
> > dpkg: error processing libpam0g (--configure):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  libpam0g
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[...]

> > # dpkg --configure libpam0g
> > Setting up libpam0g (1.0.1-3) ...
> > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde
> > debconf: (--- No method to call for :)
> > debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
> 
> Can you try using a different debconf frontend?
> 
> DEBIAN_FRONTEND=readline apt-get install -f

or try

DEBCONF_FORCE_DIALOG=1 apt-get install -f

[...]

> > --- No method to call for :
> >         QApplication::new('Qt::Applic...', ARRAY(0x993c1c8))
> > at /usr/lib/perl5/Qt.pm line 464.
> 
> This is debconf?

I think so; it looks like this bug:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481642

I would run

dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=dialog debconf

and set the default user interface to "Dialog", at least until this bug
is fixed.

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