-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> I have an old system that has been running "stable" for ages. I am now > truing to upgrade it to "testing" but somehow I have got myself into a > deadlock position. > > debconf is dying because:- > > debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (IO object version 1.21 does not > match bootstrap parameter 1.20 at /usr/lib/perl/5.8/DynaLoader.pm > line 245. > > Any ideas how I can rescue the situation? Try: dpkg-reconfigure perl apt-get -f install download the perl package from packages.debian.org and use dpkg -i to reinstall it. (use the one from stable, you should hopefully have all its dependencies in place; upgrade it to sarge later) - -- GnuPG public key available from http://ca.geocities.com/redvision.geo/gnupg_key.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBIDpRMqUhaD+LmFcRAqFzAJ95kQ2/hKhkQSzltxaHvrWXhsHySwCffJtN 370x1SBmq7zjHRnf8kSWnos= =DBu2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
