[Bug 979661] Re: oneiric to precise: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome and falls back to Dialog

[jackel]

thanks steve,  i have never tried repoting a bug before...hope my
explanation was sufficient and helps some others.  i have seen a few
threads in the forums which sounded like those who encountered this same
"freezing" episode eventually  gave up,  and  pressed the power button
to restart....leaving them with a unbootable system.

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Title:
  oneiric to precise: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome and
  falls back to Dialog

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I was doing an upgrade from Oneiric to Precise and the machine hung in
  the process. There was a dialog somewhere in the background that I
  didn't see:

  debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome
  debconf: (Unable to load Gtk -- is libgtk2-perl installed?)
  debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog

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