Colin Watson wrote:
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:31:12AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
My problem is that once when trying to uinstall gdm the process was
halted mid-stream. Ever since then, several packages refuse to install
or uninstall, such as:
Setting up man-db (2.3.20-13) ...
dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Your debconf database is broken in some exciting way. Backing up and
moving aside /var/cache/debconf/config.dat and
/var/cache/debconf/templates.dat may help, although Joey may have some
more cunning solution.
Woo-hoo!! You're a genius! You're astounding! You da man!
You ARE, the strongest link!! Hello.
Thank you thank you thank you!
No rebuild necessary after all; this IS the world of Linux, not of
Microsoft! Yee-hi-i-i-i!!!!
Thanks, Colin! You made my six months!
Kent