Ubuntu
newt package

No way to cleanly exit dpkg-reconfigure

Bug #31207 reported by Gianni Exile
8
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
newt (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Since Ctrl-C is disabled and ESC or other chars don't work, the only way to exit is to kill the process externally once dialogs are displayed. Not very friendly.

Ctrl-C should be enabled to send an interrupt in whiptail/dpkg-reconfigure.

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Kristoffer Lundén (kristoffer-lunden) wrote :

Yeah, agree. Recently did a reconfigure of xserver-xorg that I regretted halfway, but there was no way to abort. I just copied the old file back afterwards, but it was not very friendly.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

It would help if packages that have many questions (like X) would implement the backup capability provided by debconf; if they do that, you'll be able to cancel out of configuring those packages. I don't really like the idea of enabling Ctrl-C by default since if not done very carefully it could leave packages in a very broken state.

Matt Zimmerman (mdz)
Changed in newt:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Simplehuman (simplehuman) wrote :

I think it is not Actual anymore

Changed in newt (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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