On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 21:21 -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Drew Parsons wrote:
> > Name: xprint-common
> > Template: xprint-common/default_printer_resolution
> > Owners: xprint-common
> >
> > and /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat has
> >
> > Name: xprint-common/default_printer_resolution
> > Default: 600
> > Description: Default printer resolution
> > Extended_description: .....
> > Type: string
> > Owners: xprint-common
> >
> > so I'm not sure what it means by
> > "xprint-common/default_printer_resolution doesn't exist".
>
> Because the name of the question is apparently missing the
> "/default_printer_resolution" part. I think your corruption is beyond
> easy repair, the best thing to do would be to delete the debconf cache.
>
I think I understand. config.dat has
Name: package
instead of
Name: package/question
This seems to be consistent for each of the several dozen packages my
system is complaining about.
I could fix up each individual entry by hand, but I think I'll just
clean out /var/cache/debconf completely, I think.
Thanks for the help,
Drew
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