Hi, On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:16:11AM +0100, Harvey Kelly wrote: > Hello all, > Yes, I know it's foolish to go from Potato to Sid in a single bound, > but hey.
Interesting experiment :) > I uninstalled pretty much everything from potato - and left just a > skeleton system for the upgrade. Apt-get -f dist-upgrade and then > waited. After downloading apt freaked out (I can't remember at which > point), so I used dselect to see if that could sort it out. It wanted > to download another 40MB, for a complete upgrade I guess. Fine, so I > waited some more. Now it's done it is having difficulty with > configuring debconf: > > Setting up debconf (1.1.14) ... > no type given for question at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line > 15. > dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 > Errors were encountered while processing: > debconf > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > And obviously loads of important stuff ain't getting done. > How do I get out of this one? OK, Not bad. You need to install many basic packages before getting debconf running. # cd /var/cache/apt/archives # dpkg -i libc<TAB><RET> # dpkg -i perl*<RET> # dpkg -i apt*<RET> # dpkg -i debconf*<RET> # apt-get -f upgrade -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA See "User's Guide": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/users-guide/ See "Debian reference": http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ "Debian reference" Project at: http://qref.sf.net I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
