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]