Re: debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-06-17 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 13:55:37 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: >> >> You might have better luck with "dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive >> -pcritical debconf". > > Thanks for the suggestion, but it did not work. Here's what I got: > > - > > roo

Re: debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 13:55:37 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > > You might have better luck with "dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive > -pcritical debconf". Thanks for the suggestion, but it did not work. Here's what I got: - root@smp6:~# dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive -pcritical debconf /usr/s

Re: debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I tried an "apt-get dist-upgrade" of my jessie system yesterday, with bad > results. It seems that debconf is bricked. Currently, there are three packages > that are unpacked but not configured: tzdata, locales, and debconf. (There > wer