think Pearl borked after update [solved]

[pottzie]

Just re-installed Trollinger, and after getting it working, I'm getting a message that says

/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/mo.rb:46: undefined method `force_encoding' for "\225\004\022\336":String (NoMethodError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain.rb:16:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain.rb:16
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain_manager.rb:14:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain_manager.rb:14
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext.rb:19:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext.rb:19
from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:274:in `require'
from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:274

[gurtid]

ah yes! You should have either held the packages or cancelled the dist-upgrade . . . reinstall me thinks unless the experts suggest otherwise - in which case do otherwise.

P.S. I couldn't fix it but then I'm a knobend.

[machinebacon]

An idea:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge ruby* apt-listbugs
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get install perl apt-listbugs

By all means check the output of what is going to be removed and post it here. Might have to do with perl/ruby, but removing perl would be dangerous, so we just kick ruby, and check what else is going to be removed.

[pottzie]

Nah, it's all just some stupid stuff.

The following packages will be REMOVED:
apt-listbugs* aufs-tools* gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad* libaudio2* libcdaudio1*
libfftw3-3* libfftw3-double3* libfftw3-single3* libflite1* libfm-gtk-bin*
libgme0* libgmlib0* libgmtk0* libgmtk0-data* libgnome-bluetooth10*
libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-0* libidl0* libkate1* libmateconf*
libmatecorba* libmatenotify* libmhash2* libmimic0* libmms0* libnss3-1d*
libofa0* libopenal-data* libopenal1* libraptor2-0* librasqal3* librdf0*
libruby1.9.1* libslv2-9* libsoundtouch0* libspandsp2* libwildmidi-config*
libwildmidi1* libxtables9* libyajl2* libyaml-0-2* libzbar0* libzvbi-common*
libzvbi0* python-gnupginterface* python-pycurl* python-software-properties*
ruby-debian* ruby-gettext* ruby-httpclient* ruby-locale* ruby-text*
ruby-xmlparser* ruby1.8* ruby1.9.1* xulrunner-10.0*

[vic]

If this is your complete message?;

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/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/mo.rb:46: undefined method `force_encoding' for "\225\004\022\336":String (NoMethodError)
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain.rb:16:in `require'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain.rb:16
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain_manager.rb:14:in `require'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext/text_domain_manager.rb:14
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext.rb:19:in `require'
	from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/gettext.rb:19
	from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:274:in `require'
	from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:274
E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 returned an error code (10)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10

The solution is to comment out this line

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DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10";};

in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10apt-listbugs

Save and do a dist-upgrade. Worked for me.

[pottzie]

That worked, dist-upgrade went OK.

When I got the error mesage, I entered it inti Google, and this is what turned up:
http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/bug- ... 22992.html


I'll mark this solved. Thanks, Vic, everyone.