Dapper: Debconf upgrade problem

[Michele Ravani]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 19:16 +0200, Michele Ravani wrote:
>> No, I didn't.
>> The problem is that now I am stuck.
>> Without dbcconf working, most of the apt-get commands fail
>>
>> Would upgrading from the CD be an option?
> 
> 
> i don't think upgrading from CD would make a difference if the problem
> is that the package management is broken.
> 
> What happens if you "dpkg --configure debconf" or "dpkg --configure
> --pending"?
> 
> 

root at ubuntu01:/etc/apt# dpkg --configure debconf
Setting up debconf (1.4.72ubuntu9) ...
Compiling 
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-ansi/wx/tools/boa-constructor-0.4.4/ZopeLib/zoa/docsrc.py 
...
   File 
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-ansi/wx/tools/boa-constructor-0.4.4/ZopeLib/zoa/docsrc.py", 
line 10
     return context.aq_parent.document_src()
SyntaxError: 'return' outside function

[...]


Compiling 
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-ansi/wx/tools/boa-constructor-0.4.4/ZopeLib/zoa/version.py 
...
   File 
"/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.6-gtk2-ansi/wx/tools/boa-constructor-0.4.4/ZopeLib/zoa/version.py", 
line 10
     return context.zoa_version
SyntaxError: 'return' outside function

dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
  debconf

the dpkg --configure --pending works fine, but an apt-get dist-upgrade 
afterwards fails the same way.

May have to make a list of the packages and reinstall the whole thing.

Michele