Package: libc6 Version: 2.1.2-3 Severity: normal I upgraded, and the archive had both a new libc6 and a new perl. After downgrading the packages, the cofiguration went wrong. In fact, /usr/bin/per-5.005 didn't have its execute bit on. Tihs made the configuration of libc6 fail, and in turn made the configuration of perl fail, because libc6 was not configured.
Manually setting the execution bits on perl broke the loop. # dpkg --configure --pending Setting up libc6 (2.1.2-3) ... Running `tzconfig\' to set this system's timezone. Your current time zone is set to Rome/Italy Do you want to change that? [n]: Your time zone will not be changed /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst: /usr/sbin/update-rc.d: Permission denied dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6-dev: libc6-dev depends on libc6 (= 2.1.2-3); however: Package libc6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing libc6-dev (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-5.005-base: perl-5.005-base depends on libc6 (>= 2.1); however: Package libc6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing perl-5.005-base (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gconv-modules: gconv-modules depends on libc6 (= 2.1.2-3); however: Package libc6 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gconv-modules (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-5.005: perl-5.005 depends on perl-5.005-base (= 5.005.03-4); however: Package perl-5.005-base is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing perl-5.005 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-5.005-suid: perl-5.005-suid depends on perl-5.005 (= 5.005.03-4); however: Package perl-5.005 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing perl-5.005-suid (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of perl-5.005-debug: perl-5.005-debug depends on perl-5.005 (= 5.005.03-4); however: Package perl-5.005 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing perl-5.005-debug (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libc6 libc6-dev perl-5.005-base gconv-modules perl-5.005 perl-5.005-suid perl-5.005-debug -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux pot 2.2.10 #3 Mon Jul 12 19:50:44 CEST 1999 i686 unknown Versions of the packages libc6 depends on: ii ldso 1.9.11-3 The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilit
