phpmyadmin: Upgrade to latest version fails in post-install

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #282587 http://bugs.debian.org/282587

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Message-Id: <E1CWVoa-000315-00@localhost>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:14:20 +0100
From: Eric Valette <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: phpmyadmin: Upgrade to latest version fails in post-install

Package: phpmyadmin
Version: 2:2.6.0-pl3-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Unpacking replacement phpmyadmin ...
Setting up phpmyadmin (2.6.0-pl3-1) ...
Can't call method "description" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 76, <GEN0> line 1.
dpkg: error processing phpmyadmin (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
 phpmyadmin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-rc2-bk4
Locale: LANG=en_IE@euro, LC_CTYPE=en_IE (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_IE@euro)

Versions of packages phpmyadmin depends on:
ii apache [httpd] 1.3.33-2 Versatile, high-performance HTTP s
ii debconf 1.4.40 Debian configuration management sy
ii php4 4:4.3.9-1 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii php4-cgi 4:4.3.9-1 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti
ii php4-mysql 4:4.3.9-1 MySQL module for php4
ii ucf 1.13 Update Configuration File: preserv

-- debconf information:
* phpmyadmin/webserver: apache, apache-ssl, apache-perl, apache2
* phpmyadmin/restart: true
* phpmyadmin/reconfigure-webserver: apache, apache-ssl, apache-perl, apache2
* phpmyadmin/restart-webserver: true
  phpmyadmin/changed-extension:

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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:22:47 +0100
From: Piotr Roszatycki <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#282587: phpmyadmin: Upgrade to latest version fails in post-install

reassign 282587 debconf
tag 282587 unreproducible
thanks

On Tuesday 23 of November 2004 09:14, Eric Valette wrote:
> Package: phpmyadmin
> Version: 2:2.6.0-pl3-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Unpacking replacement phpmyadmin ...
> Setting up phpmyadmin (2.6.0-pl3-1) ...
> Can't call method "description" on an undefined value at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 76, <GEN0> line 1. dpkg: error
> processing phpmyadmin (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> phpmyadmin

It seems like problem with debconf.

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Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 15:25:06 -0500
From: Joey Hess <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: severity of 282587 is important, retitle 282587 to unexplained db corruption ... ... ...

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.5
severity 282587 important
retitle 282587 unexplained db corruption
retitle 247849 unexplained db corruption
retitle 255193 unexplained db corruption
merge 282587 282587 255193

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Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 04:08:39 -0500
From: Joey Hess <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: merging 284287 282587

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.6
merge 284287 282587

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Message-ID: <20050302090507.GA2536@preusse>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 10:05:07 +0100
From: Hilmar Preusse <email address hidden>
To: Christian Frommeyer <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: tex4ht: Install and Remove fail

reassign 297534 debconf
severity 297534 important
merge 297534 247849
stop

On 01.03.05 Christian Frommeyer (<email address hidden>) wrote:

Hi,

> I just uopdated some packages on my Debian/SID machine including tex4ht.
> When installing I got a Errormessage:
>
> Entpacke Ersatz f�4ht ...
> Richte tex4ht ein (20050216.2023-1) ...
> Installiere neue Version der Konfigurationsdatei /etc/tex4ht/tex4ht.env ...
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R...
> texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
> texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
> texhash: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R...
> texhash: Done.
> Can't call method "description" on an undefined value at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 76, <GEN0> line 1.
> dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von tex4ht (--install):
> Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 9 zur�Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
> tex4ht
>
> Trying to purge the new Version also results in an error:
> Entferne tex4ht ...
> L�e Konfigurationsdateien von tex4ht ...
> Can't call method "description" on an undefined value at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 76, <GEN0> line 1.
> dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von tex4ht (--purge):
> Unterprozess post-removal script gab den Fehlerwert 9 zur�Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
> tex4ht
>
Probably the same as #247849, #255193, #282587. Reassigning, merging.
For now calling /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl should fix that problem.

H.
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[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 19384.