The same problem: ============================================================ Setting up bacula-director-mysql (5.0.1-1ubuntu1) ... debconf: Unknown template field '_description', in stanza #9 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/bacula-director-mysql.templates dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/bacula-director-mysql.conf Processing configuration...Ok. * Starting Bacula Director... 05-Oct 14:45 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:784 Config error: expected a string, got T_EOL: = : line 236, col 12 of file /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf dbname = ; DB Address = ""; dbuser = ""; dbpassword = "" [fail] dpkg: error processing bacula-director-mysql (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bacula-server: bacula-server depends on bacula-director-mysql (>= 5.0.1-1ubuntu1) | bacula-director; however: Package bacula-director-mysql is not configured yet. Package bacula-director is not installed. Package bacula-director-mysql which provides bacula-director is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing bacula-server (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bacula: bacula depends on bacula-server; however: Package bacula-server is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing bacula (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. Errors were encountered while processing: bacula-director-mysql bacula-server bacula E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ============================================================ And the same during uninstall : ============================================================ 2 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up bacula-director-mysql (5.0.1-1ubuntu1) ... debconf: Unknown template field '_description', in stanza #9 of /var/lib/dpkg/info/bacula-director-mysql.templates dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/bacula-director-mysql.conf Processing configuration...Ok. * Starting Bacula Director... 05-Oct 14:53 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:784 Config error: expected a string, got T_EOL: = : line 236, col 12 of file /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf dbname = ; DB Address = ""; dbuser = ""; dbpassword = "" [fail] dpkg: error processing bacula-director-mysql (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bacula-server: bacula-server depends on bacula-director-mysql (>= 5.0.1-1ubuntu1) | bacula-director; however: Package bacula-director-mysql is not configured yet. Package bacula-director is not installed. Package bacula-director-mysql which provides bacula-director is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing bacula-server (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. Errors were encountered while processing: bacula-director-mysql bacula-server E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)