Re: Borked update

From: Jerome R. Acks (jracksjr_at_verizon.net)
Date: 03/31/04

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    Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:50:58 -0500
To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 01:02:32PM -0800, 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

    Look at the output of 'dpkg -l perl\*'.

    One of the first two letters of a line should indicate if you have a
    problem with perl installation. If so then configuring it with
    'dpkg --configure' or reinstalling it may help.

    > /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)?
    > 

    -- 
Jerome



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