Re: modutils v2.3.9-2 is broken

[Sergio Brandano <sb@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>]

Michel "Dänzer" <mdaenzer@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Does it really fail? On my machine, update-modules just states that
>there is no such file, but otherwise works perfectly.
>
>If it does fail for you, post the output.

 I posted it already in my initial message, however...

running dpkg --pending --configure ...
Setting up modutils (2.3.9-2) ...
Architecture-specific modutils configuration not found, using defaults
depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented

dpkg: error processing modutils (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-9) ...
grep: /proc/hardware: No such file or directory
substr outside of string at /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-data.config line 354, <STDIN> chunk 4.
Please report this bug: no keymaps described for architecture powerpc/ at /var/lib/dpkg/info/console-data.config line 652, <STDIN> chunk 4.
dpkg: error processing console-data (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of alsaconf:
 alsaconf depends on modutils (>= 2.3.5-1); however:
  Package modutils is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing alsaconf (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 modutils
 console-data
 alsaconf

dpkg --configure returned error exit status 1.
Press RETURN to continue.