Can't open /usr/share/debconf/confmodule - When install using apt-get

Question

I tried installing valgrind using,

apt-get install valgrind

After downloading the packages, am getting the following error,

Setting up tzdata (2013d-0squeeze1) ...
.: 9: Can't open /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
configured to not write apport reports
                                  Errors were encountered while processing:
 tzdata
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Please help me in resolving these issues.

Am on Debian-Squeeze

Answer 1

/usr/share/debconf/confmodule is a script that's part of debconf, a required package. Check that it's present and readable:

# ll /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2690 Mar 15  2012 /usr/share/debconf/confmodule

If it's not readable, make it readable by chmod a+r /usr/share/debconf/confmodule.

If it's missing or damaged, try reinstalling debconf, apt-get --reinstall install debconf.