On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:03:13PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > Ok, ok, I know I should have known better. I upgraded to > unstable/testing some time ago, a few days ago I noticed > X4.x was finaly in unstable so I upgraded again. Only to > find out debconf can't live with a recent perl upgrade. > Now the only thing I get is something like: > > Setting up nis (3.9-4) ... > Can't modify goto in lvalue subroutine return at > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Base.pm line 24, near "}" > Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 3. > ...propagated at /usr/share/perl/5.6.1/base.pm line 18. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Iterator.pm > line 5. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 7. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm > line 7. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line 5. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Config.pm line > 5. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Log.pm line 8. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 5. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Db.pm line 5. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 22. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 22. > dpkg: error processing nis (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 > Errors were encountered while processing: > nis > > Unfortunately I can't remove perl since it is kind of > vital :-). And it doesn't seem to be possible to reinstall > perl because then apt-get tells me perl is already > up-to-date. Dito for the debconf package. > > Any ideas? I'm kind of lost here :-( > > Thanks in advance, > > Nico
> --------------------------------------------------------- > "It has been said that there are only two businesses that > refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and > the computer industry." > --------------------------------------------------------- > Nico De Ranter > Sony Service Center (SDCE/NEE-B) > Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) > 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth > Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi Nico, It's been a long time since I had to deal with this problem. But, I suggest downloading the requisite perl .deb's. See if you have anything in /etc/alternatives that is trying point to perl. Make a symlink in /usr/bin to whatever that may be pointed to and then try to install the .deb's. Or, if no luck there, just try making a symlink in /usr/bin that points to 'perl-5.6' or perhaps 'perl5.6.1' and see if that fixes it by trying to manually installing the .deb's after making those symlinks. I tracked down the problem myself long ago by actually examining the lines of the file given in the error message and trying to figure out what it was having a problem with. If you do this and still can't figure it out message back again with what you did get by digging a little deeper. If you really can't figure it out you could attach the offending .pm files in the error message and I will have a look at them and try to figure out what's wrong by your error messages. If you do that, you may want to e-mail me directly rather than having everyone on the mailing list downloading the attached files. Hope That Helps and Good Luck, Jim Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] o _ _ _ __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) _`\<, _`\<, _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ (_)/(_) (_)/(_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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