Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Valette wrote: >> Joey Hess wrote: >> >>>>>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. >>> >> >> >> Disks are clean. I reinstalled debconf, dialog. No change. >> > > 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 -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer