control: tag -1 + moreinfo On 2016-03-04 14:10, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: > Package: libc6 > Severity: Serious > > Yesterday, I tred to upgrade libc6 on my Debian GNU/testing system. But > it didn't work. The packages are marked as broken in synaptic. Today, I > tried apt-get -f install, but it fails too:
While the issue appears when installing libc6, I really doubt it is an issue with this package. > root@notebook4:/home/philipp# LANG=C apt-get -f install > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Correcting dependencies... Done > The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer > required: > gtk2-engines libglewmx1.10 libgtkglext1-dev libintl-perl libjsoncpp0v5 > libopenraw1v5 libpangox-1.0-dev libsigc++-1.2-5c2 libusb-1.0-0:i386 > lockfile-progs > qemu-kvm > Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. > The following additional packages will be installed: > libc6 libc6:i386 libc6-i686:i386 > Suggested packages: > glibc-doc glibc-doc:i386 libc-l10n:i386 locales:i386 > The following packages will be upgraded: > libc6 libc6:i386 libc6-i686:i386 > 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 950 not upgraded. > 4 not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0 B/6181 kB of archives. > After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > debconf: Perl may be unconfigured (Unknown regexp modifier "/g" at > /usr/share/perl/5.22/Text/Wrap.pm line 31, at end of line > BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at > /usr/share/perl/5.22/Text/Wrap.pm line 35. > Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm > line 10. Your perl installation seems completely broken. Have you done anything related with it recently? > Philipp > > P.S.: How can I get my system back into a useable state? Since the > failure is on de-configuring, I guess, I can't go back to an older > version either? You should try to reinstall perl. Something like "apt-get install --reinstall perl perl-base perl-modules-5.22" might help. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net