Re: Borked update

From: Katipo (katipo_at_weavers-web.org)
Date: 03/31/04

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    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 /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)?
    >
    >
    >
    Hello Martin,

    Looks as though we are in the same boat, so lets get something going here.
    I'm in the process of stripping down Gnome 2.4, and it is a minefield of
    interdependencies.
    I know that nautilus-media and the nautilus package are dependent, so if
    you install the package nautilus that may help with nautilus-media.
    I've purged both nautilus and nautilus-media so far, If I need that type
    of file manager, gmc will do it, and there are better multimedia
    packages than nautilus-media.

    The only other thing that I have been able to glean so far, as I've just
    started, is the gnome dependency on libgnome2-perl.

    For the rest, the impression is the problem is with debconf, from the
    downgrade.
    Have you tried a reinstall of debconf testing?
    Regards,

    David. 

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