problems with upgrade

From: Christian Christmann (plfriko_at_yahoo.de)
Date: 04/22/05

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    Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:43:10 +0200
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    Hi,

    since a couple of days I get this message
    when trying to upgrade my Sarge box:

    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree
    Reading extended state information
    Initializing package states... Done
    Reading task descriptions... Done
    No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
    0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
    Writing extended state information... Done
    Setting up debconf (1.4.30.13) ...
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst: line 84: 5905 Segmentation fault $PYTHON -O /usr/lib/$PYTHON/compileall.py -q $i
    dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
    subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex-bin:
    tetex-bin depends on debconf (>= 0.5.00); however:
    Package debconf is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debconf-utils:
    debconf-utils depends on debconf (>= 1.3.20); however:
    Package debconf is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing debconf-utils (--configure):
    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hotplug:
    hotplug depends on debconf (>= 0.2.26); however:
    Package debconf is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing hotplug (--configure):
    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libusb-0.1-4:
    libusb-0.1-4 depends on debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0; however:
    Package debconf is not configured yet.
    Package debconf-2.0 is not installed.
    Package debconf which provides debconf-2.0 is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing libusb-0.1-4 (--configure):
    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkscan1:
    libkscan1 depends on libusb-0.1-4 (>= 2:0.1.10a); however:
    Package libusb-0.1-4 is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing libkscan1 (--configure):
    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     debconf
     tetex-bin
     debconf-utils
     hotplug
     libusb-0.1-4
     libkscan1
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
    Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:
    Setting up debconf (1.4.30.13) ...
    /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst: line 84: 5923 Segmentation fault $PYTHON -O /usr/lib/$PYTHON/compileall.py -q $i
    dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
    subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libusb-0.1-4:
    libusb-0.1-4 depends on debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0; however:
    Package debconf is not configured yet.
    Package debconf-2.0 is not installed.
    Package debconf which provides debconf-2.0 is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing libusb-0.1-4 (--configure):
    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libkscan1:
    libkscan1 depends on libusb-0.1-4 (>= 2:0.1.10a); however:
    Package libusb-0.1-4 is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing libkscan1 (--configure):
    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of debconf-utils:
    debconf-utils depends on debconf (>= 1.3.20); however:
    Package debconf is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing debconf-utils (--configure):
    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hotplug:
    hotplug depends on debconf (>= 0.2.26); however:
    Package debconf is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing hotplug (--configure):
    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex-bin:
    tetex-bin depends on debconf (>= 0.5.00); however:
    Package debconf is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
    dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    debconf
    libusb-0.1-4
    libkscan1
    debconf-utils
    hotplug
    tetex-bin
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree
    Reading extended state information
    Initializing package states... Done
    Reading task descriptions... Done

    How can I solve that problem?

    Thanks
    Chris 

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