Joey, I had seen various posting on debian-devel and debian-user about making sure that all the components of perl-5.6 were installed. I believe that those components are present on my system. perl-5.005 and related packages are still on this system. I have removed the perl-5.6 packages and reinstalled them without success.
Afterwards, I looked for a way to run perl in debug mode and [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp $ debugperl -Dtls /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure revealed that /usr/lib/perl5/POSIX.pm was loaded instead of /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/POSIX.pm The culprit was found. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives# locate POSIX.pm /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux/POSIX.pm /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/POSIX.pm /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/POSIX.pm /usr/lib/perl5/POSIX.pm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives# There were several perl modules remaining from an older version and moving them to another directory solved the problem. /usr/lib/perl5/TO-DELETE: total 167 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 24 15:45 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 5120 Nov 24 15:45 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 43367 Apr 22 1997 DB_File.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2073 Apr 22 1997 Fatal.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1626 Apr 22 1997 Fcntl.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 11437 Apr 22 1997 FileHandle.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1883 Apr 22 1997 GDBM_File.pm drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 Feb 5 1998 IO -r--r--r-- 1 root root 471 Apr 22 1997 IO.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 441 Apr 22 1997 NDBM_File.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 400 Apr 22 1997 ODBM_File.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 14981 Apr 22 1997 Opcode.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 17806 Apr 22 1997 POSIX.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 32729 Apr 22 1997 POSIX.pod -r--r--r-- 1 root root 401 Apr 22 1997 SDBM_File.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 16534 Apr 22 1997 Safe.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 6872 Apr 22 1997 Socket.pm /usr/lib/perl5/TO-DELETE/IO: total 36 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 1024 Feb 5 1998 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Nov 24 15:45 .. -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3753 Apr 22 1997 File.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3722 Apr 22 1997 Pipe.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1596 Apr 22 1997 Seekable.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 6327 Apr 22 1997 Select.pm -r--r--r-- 1 root root 16030 Apr 22 1997 Socket.pm Well, I should have solved it faster. Sorry for bothering you. Thank you for your help, listening and everyone working on Debian, Chris Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christophe Broult wrote: > > Setting up debconf (0.5.23) ... > > POSIX object version 1.03 does not match bootstrap parameter 1.00 at > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 219. > > Perhaps you have perl-5.6-base installed, but not perl-5.6, and you do > have perl-5.005 installed? Try installing perl-5.6 and see if the > problem goes away. > > > POSIX object version 1.03 does not match bootstrap parameter 1.00 at > > /usr/lib/perl5/5.6/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 219. > > Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/dpkg-gencontrol line 12. -- "Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter." - Joseph Addison
