After some more digging I found that this is caused by modules-config which is not compatible with older versions of sed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/apache$ dpkg -l apache-common
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
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ii apache-common 1.3.29.0.1-2 Support files for all Apache webservers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/apache$ grep "sed -s" /usr/sbin/modules-config
sed -s 's/AddModule mod_perl.c/LoadModule perl_module \/usr\/lib\/apache\/1.3\/mod_perl.so/g' | \
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/apache$ dpkg -l sed
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
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ii sed 3.02-8 The GNU sed stream editor.
After upgrading sed this particular error goes away.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/apache$ dpkg -l sed
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-========================-========================- ================================================================
ii sed 4.0.7-3 The GNU sed stream editor
Looks like a versioned depends is needed. Older versions of sed can't use the "-s" option.
Thanks,
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Paul Telford | 1024D/431B38BA | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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