Joey Hess wrote: > Ingo Reimann wrote: > > when i installed debconf, i was happy, when he asked my, whether to use some > > nice gtk-interface or not. > > I thought, this was a good idea, and so during apt-get update/upgrade, some > > windows pops up an vanishes, but I only see a black box. How do i get rid of > > this an switch to a text-based output > > Run "dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=text debconf" and this time read the note > saying that the GTK interface is experimental, and make your coice more > wisely. > > Note that if you upgraded to unstable in the past few days, that won't work > and you should just delete /var/lib/debconf/debconf.db instead. (It will > start working again tomorrow..) >
Hi Joey , thanks for you advise, but unfortunately it did not work :-( some apt-get update; apt-upgrade later i ran into the following situation: Netbase: I got nice gtk-boxes, that asked me, wich interfaces i want to use (eth0 eth1 ppp0). Afterwards: E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt recieved a segmentation fault. E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt I deleted /var/lib/debconf/debconf.db, even if i did not upgrade from slink. and ran dpkg-reconfigure --frontend=text debconf. The next time i got the ncurses-interface and after the same question about the interfaces: Can't use string ("ARRAY(0x8233c44)") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Element/Dialog/Select.pm line 46, <GEN23> chunk 5. E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (29) E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt Am i wrong or the package? Thanks for help, Ingo ---------------------------------------------------------------- I. Reimann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inst. fuer Angew. Physik +49 251 83-33541 (fon) Correnstr. 2-4 +49 251 83-33513 (fax) D-48149 Muenster Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------