Re: Debian Installer - Dselect Has Stopped Working

From: Victor Nazarov (vir_at_comtv.ru)
Date: 07/18/05 

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:46:18 +0000 (UTC)

Mark Hobley wrote:
> I am using Debian Testing. This was Debian Sarge up until this month, but I
> think the system is trying to upgrade to Debian Etch, since Sarge is now
> stable.
>
> I am trying to run dselect to install new packages, but it fails to complete.
>
> It is asking me to fix the errors before running dselect again, but I don't
> know how.
>
> Please advise.
>
> Here is the tail end of the output:
>
> 0 upgraded, 205 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/85.5MB of archives.
> After unpacking 248MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> E: Cannot get debconf version. Is debconf installed?
> (Reading database ... 70 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libc6 (from .../libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg not recorded as installed, cannot check for epoch support !
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.deb
> (--unpack):
> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.3.2.ds1-22_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
> packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
> or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
> above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
> Press enter to continue.
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libdb1-compat:
> libdb1-compat depends on libc6 (>= 2.2.5-13); however:
> Package libc6 is not installed.
> dpkg: error processing libdb1-compat (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> libdb1-compat
>
> installation script returned error exit status 100.
> Press <enter> to continue.
>
>
The most suspicious fact is that it doesn't want to upgrade anything. It
tries to install (not upgrade) libc, that's means that it IS NOT
INSTALLED currently. So nothing is to work.
There is some problem with packages database. Try using some other tool
rather then dselect. Try to update dselect:
# apt-get update
# apt-get install dselect 

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