hi, I managed to exit from the impasse by manually running 'dpkg --configure package' on single packages... but it was quite a PITA
BTW, it seems that my problem was due to perl : perl did not cleanly upgrade from etch to lenny , due to a symbol not found in its own gettext library a. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

