> Abologies to Yann since I cc'ed 2 bugs with this, but I think it should be in > the discussion of both. > > While this bug *is* resolved in 1999.08.29-9 for me the prerm script in > 1999.08.29-8 (the one that actually broke on my machine) fails, so the new > one > does not get installed. In my case, the solution was to obtain the actual deb > (should be in /var/cache/apt/archives/console-data_1999.08.29-9_all.deb if > apt > just failed) and dpkg -i --force confnew console-data_1999.08.29-9.deb. That > made the install succeed. I don't know if there is any way to make this > automatically use the new scripts, but it would help.
Unfortunately this didn't work for me, I still get the same error. I also have a "/proc/hardware not found" error by the way. Thanks, Renaud