debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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debconf (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Confusing upgrade:
output:
Unpacking debconf (1.5.66) over (1.5.65) ...
Setting up debconf (1.5.66) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome
debconf: (Can't locate Gtk3.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Gtk3 module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/
debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Selecting previously unselected package fonts-ubuntu.
(Reading database ... 184774 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../fonts-
Unpacking fonts-ubuntu (0.83-1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../ttf-
Unpacking ttf-ubuntu-
Setting up debconf-i18n (1.5.66) ...
Setting up python3-debconf (1.5.66) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.1-1) ...
Setting up fonts-ubuntu (0.83-1) ...
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.12.6-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up ttf-ubuntu-
Cant says if the upgrade is good or not.
Needs to run 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure debconf' to set the minimal required.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: debconf 1.5.66
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Feb 28 20:12:14 2018
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: debconf
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Fixed by:
software-properties (0.96.24.22) bionic; urgency=medium
* software- properties- gtk: Depend on libgtk3-perl for debconf's GNOME
backend. Drop previous Recommends on libgtk2-perl. (LP: #1679784)
-- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Thu, 01 Mar 2018 21:34:59 -0500