Debconf trouble

From: Nick Willson (nick_at_nickwillson.com)
Date: 11/20/03

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    Trouble when upgrading sid, suggestions welcome on how to fix.

    blackbird:~# aptitude dist-upgrade
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree
    Reading extended state information... Done
    The following packages will be upgraded:
      console-common
    1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0B/38.3kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
    Writing extended state information... Done
    Use of uninitialized value in exists at
    /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29, <> line 1.
    debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
    debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs
    shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
    debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
    Preconfiguring packages ...
    debconf: warning: possible database corruption. Will attempt to repair
    by adding back missing question console-common.
    debconf: warning: possible database corruption. Will attempt to repair
    by adding back missing question console-data.
    Use of uninitialized value in exists at
    /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 66, <GEN1> line 3.
    Use of uninitialized value in exists at
    /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29, <GEN1> line 3.
    Use of uninitialized value in exists at
    /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 66, <GEN1> line 3.
    Use of uninitialized value in exists at
    /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29, <GEN1> line 3.
    Can't call method "choices" on an undefined value at
    /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 85, <GEN1> line 3.
    (Reading database ... 87461 files and directories currently installed.)
    Preparing to replace console-common 0.7.32 (using
    .../console-common_0.7.33_all.deb) ...
    Use of uninitialized value in exists at
    /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 29.
    [another 150 lines snipped] 

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Nick
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