On 2016-03-05 00:45, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > 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?
Any news about that? > > 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. Any luck fixing your system? Do you need help? Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net