On Friday 02 November 2001 20:26, Eric Richardson wrote: > Hi, > Added woody to sources.list, apt-get update, apt-get -u dist-upgrade and > then waited a long time even on a DSL line to download and then the > following happened. > > Get:489 http://http.us.debian.org woody/main xsitecopy 1:0.9.10-1 > [151kB] > Fetched 229MB in 1h3m28s (60.1kB/s) > > 86% [Scanning packages]Template parse error near "" at > /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 102, <TEMPLATES> chunk 2. > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt returned an error code > (29) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt > > Looks like after everything downloaded. Now I don't really have much of > a clue what to do. This is my first try with testing but have been > running potato for over a year with no problems. > > Thanks for any help, > Eric :-)
I've had similar and have been able to resume everything by installing debconf (and it's depends) prior to the dist-upgrade. apt-get install debconf apt-utils has corrected it for me in the past. hth bob
