On Fri, 18 May 2001, "Chris Parker" wrote: > > Please HELP. Upgraded potato to woody. That went fine. Trying to go to > kernel 2.4.4. Used dselect for kenel and other packs like xfree86. Some > have installed but others will not! > ERROR MESSAGE: > [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60, <TEMPLATES> > (in cleanup) Can't call method "DESTROY" chuck 2 > undefined value at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Question.pm line > 151, <TEMPLATES> line 2 during global destruction. > > E:Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned error code (29) > E:failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt > > ..fix and install again > installation script returned error exit status 100 > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Also under dpkg -l in col 1 what does ii,rc, and ic mean? > If anyone can help or lead me to how to fix this it would be greatly > appreciated! > > Thanks for any help given!
ii means installed properly, rc is once installed but now removed, etc. There is a header at the top od dpkg -l - pipe it through less or more so you can see the top. It will tell you exactly what each of the two letters stand for. It sounds like you have a perl problem - I think the upgrade goes from one version of perl to another, and some of the files don't write properly the first time. Try dpkg -a --configure, and if that produces no results, try reinstalling perl. The install scripts depennd on a working perl library, and if it's not set up, you'll get errors like this. Good luck, Steve
