Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 04 avril 2006 à 08:16 -0500, JP Sugarbroad a écrit : > > Package: fontconfig-config > > Version: 2.3.2-5.1 > > Severity: serious > > > > Package prerm/postrm should never fail: > > > > Purging configuration files for fontconfig-config ... > > Can't call method "description" on an undefined value at > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 93, <GEN0> line 1. > > dpkg: error processing fontconfig-config (--purge): > > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 9 > > This script snippet is automatically generated by dh_installdebconf. > > Joey, do you have an idea of what could be causing such an error?
Yes, this is type 1 debconf database corruption. There's a lot of examples of it in the bug reports for debconf, although no definitive way to reproduce it. There's also a /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl that can be run to clean up a system that has it. -- see shy jo
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