Hi all. I was running woody originally before it became testing and decided to do a fresh install. Upon realizing that testing didn't include many packages I enjoyed having I tried a dist-upgrade to sid.
Here's my problem. I remember reading about problems with the new perl upgrade and how it breaks (broke) packages. I thought this was old news, but I guess it is not. All weekend I have tried different combinations of dist-upgrades, from potato --> sid, from potato --> testing --> to sid, and heck, I even tried progeny. Anyway, I've attached my errors I logged when doing a upgrade of task-x-window-system. I should explain that I started with a base potato install, did a dist-upgrade to unstable, and then an apt-get install task-x-window system. Is there a quick fix to these errors, or will I eventually be able to fix this with an apt-get upgrade? Thanks for your help every (any) one.. JP
Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... Sorry, task-x-window-system is already the newest version 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 9 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up debconf (0.5.42) ... Can't locate warnings.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/warnings/register.pm line 3. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/vars.pm line 11. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/vars.pm line 11. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/Fcntl.pm line 45. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/Fcntl.pm line 45. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/FileHandle.pm line 9. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 6. 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 debconf (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Setting up xserver-common (4.0.2-1) ... Can't locate warnings.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/warnings/register.pm line 3. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/vars.pm line 11. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/vars.pm line 11. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/Fcntl.pm line 45. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/Fcntl.pm line 45. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/FileHandle.pm line 9. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 6. 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 xserver-common (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-xfree86: xserver-xfree86 depends on xserver-common (>> 4.0); however: Package xserver-common is not configured yet. xserver-xfree86 depends on debconf (>= 0.2.26); however: Package debconf is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up xbase-clients (4.0.2-1) ... Can't locate warnings.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/warnings/register.pm line 3. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/vars.pm line 11. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/vars.pm line 11. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/Fcntl.pm line 45. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/Fcntl.pm line 45. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/FileHandle.pm line 9. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 6. 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 xbase-clients (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of task-x-window-system-core: task-x-window-system-core depends on xserver-common; however: Package xserver-common is not configured yet. task-x-window-system-core depends on xserver-xfree86; however: Package xserver-xfree86 is not configured yet. task-x-window-system-core depends on xbase-clients; however: Package xbase-clients is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing task-x-window-system-core (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xdm: xdm depends on xbase-clients; however: Package xbase-clients is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing xdm (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Setting up xfs (4.0.2-1) ... Can't locate warnings.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/warnings/register.pm line 3. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/vars.pm line 11. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/vars.pm line 11. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/Fcntl.pm line 45. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/Fcntl.pm line 45. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/Seekable.pm line 54. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/IO/File.pm line 112. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/FileHandle.pm line 9. Compilation failed in require at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 6. 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 xfs (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xnest: xnest depends on xserver-common; however: Package xserver-common is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing xnest (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of task-x-window-system: task-x-window-system depends on task-x-window-system-core; however: Package task-x-window-system-core is not configured yet. task-x-window-system depends on xdm; however: Package xdm is not configured yet. task-x-window-system depends on xfs; however: Package xfs is not configured yet. task-x-window-system depends on xnest; however: Package xnest is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing task-x-window-system (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: debconf xserver-common xserver-xfree86 xbase-clients task-x-window-system-core xdm xfs xnest task-x-window-system E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
