Comment 24 for bug 25620

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 11:03:35 +0100
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?= <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: Joey Hess <email address hidden>, Norbert Preining <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 teTeX maintainers <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

Eric Valette <email address hidden> wrote:

> Eric Valette wrote:
>> Joey Hess wrote:
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>>>>>On Fre, 11 Nov 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>Setting up tex-common (0.10) ...
>>>>>>>debconf: Unable to load Debconf::Element::Dialog.
>>>
>>>
>>>I imagine that a strace -f of a run of dpkg-reconfigure or any other
>>>debconf command that reproduces the problem would show clearly what it
>>>is.
>>>
>>>Most likely is that the file has gone missing on the local system due to
>>>disk corruption, accidental deletion, or a screwed up local install of
>>>perl that's somehow not finding it.
>>>
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>> Disks are clean. I reinstalled debconf, dialog. No change.
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>
> I extracted the postinst script and run it manually. I have run "sh -x
> ./postinst configure" by hand, replaced by the maintainer version of I
> don't remember what and the bug is gone??? Black magic somewhere.

Sorry, I don't completely understand: You don't know which package's
postinst you were running? Or you do know this (which?) but don't
remember where you took the postinst from?

Thanks in advance,
Frank

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Frank K=FCster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer