Mark Symonds wrote: > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt exited unexpectedly > E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
Set DEBCONF_DEBUG=2 in the environment, export it, reproduce, send me the output. > newport:/home/mark# dpkg-reconfigure --priority=medium debconf > Illegal instruction > newport:/home/mark# > > Hopefully someday dpkg-reconfigure will get a little more verbose... This would tend to indicate that perl got really screwed up and died. I would tend to suspect a hardware error at a first guess. I've *never* seen perl do this. -- see shy jo