debconf fails with "frontend: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0."

[Bryan O'Brien]

Was performing an upgrade from Meerkat.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: perl-base 5.10.1-17ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Aug 5 12:21:41 2011
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: package perl-base is already installed and configured
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
SourcePackage: dpkg
Title: package perl-base 5.10.1-17ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package perl-base is already installed and configured
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-08-05 (0 days ago)

[Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog)]

The problem is that debconf's graphical interface fails to run due to "Fatal IO error 11". I don't know what can cause this and it would be nice if debconf had some sort of automatic fallback to non-interactive instead of just failing. Thus reassigning to debconf.

Checking for services that may need to be restarted...Checking init scripts...

WARNING: init script for samba not found.

frontend: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.

dpkg: error processing libpam0g (--configure):

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Errors were encountered while processing:

 libpam0g

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more maintained