On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:31:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > This problem goes back about 4 months; I've posted a few times and > gotten some valuable responses, but nothing that's helped. > > My problem is that once when trying to uinstall gdm the process was > halted mid-stream. Ever since then, several packages refuse to install > or uninstall, such as: > > Setting up man-db (2.3.20-13) ... > dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Your debconf database is broken in some exciting way. Backing up and moving aside /var/cache/debconf/config.dat and /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat may help, although Joey may have some more cunning solution. > One of the valuable hints was to put "set -x" on the second line of one > of these scripts. Useful in general, but for debconf problems you have to add it to the .config script as well and/or set DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer in the environment. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
