[Debconf-devel] Bug#641957: Infinite loop in /usr/share/debconf/frontend

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On 20.09.2011 21:07, Joey Hess wrote:
> Note that those who experience this situation can get out by
> pressing ctrl-c, and then run something like:
>
> apt-get -o Immediate-Configure=false -f install

Doesn't work here.

root at torrustest:~# apt-get -o Immediate-Configure=false -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
   libdb4.7
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
   libberkeleydb-perl libc6-i686 libcrypt-des-perl libdb5.1 
libdigest-sha1-perl libfont-freetype-perl liblocale-gettext-perl 
libtext-charwidth-perl
   libtext-iconv-perl libxml-libxml-perl libxml-parser-perl 
multiarch-support
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   libdb5.1 multiarch-support
The following packages will be upgraded:
   libberkeleydb-perl libc6-i686 libcrypt-des-perl libdigest-sha1-perl 
libfont-freetype-perl liblocale-gettext-perl libtext-charwidth-perl 
libtext-iconv-perl
   libxml-libxml-perl libxml-parser-perl
10 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 210 not upgraded.
14 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/3,226 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,269 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
E: Could not perform immediate configuration on already unpacked 'perl'. 
Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details.

Bernhard