dpkg configuration of dibbler-client not working properly

[Michael Helmling]

Binary package hint: dibbler-client

While upgrading my network to ipv6 I've installed the dibbler dhcpv6 client on several machines, mostly running hardy heron. During installation I noticed the same misbehavior on all of the machines:

- Installation hangs with "Generating /etc/dibbler/client.conf-dpkg-new...", there is no more output, but after pressing "Enter" dpkg continues
- dpkg offers me checkboxes to select if I want to receive dns-server and/or domain information with dhcpv6. Although I select both of them, the generated config file only has domain enabled:

# Defaults for dibbler-client.
# installed at /etc/dibbler/client.conf by the maintainer scripts

# 8 (Debug) is most verbose. 7 (Info) is usually the best option
log-level 7

# To perform stateless (i.e. options only) configuration, uncomment
# this line below and remove any "ia" keywords from interface definitions
# stateless

iface eth0 {
# ask for address
    ia

# ask for options
# option dns-server
# option domain
# option dns-server
    option domain
# option ntp-server
# option time-zone
# option sip-server
# option sip-domain
# option nis-server
# option nis-domain
# option nis+-server
# option nis+-domain

It's also quite strange that those options appear twice there, so I assume the dpkg script in this package is somewhat buggy?

[Michael Helmling (supermihi)]

There are more debconf problems in the new version:

# LC_ALL=C dpkg --configure -a
Setting up dibbler-client (0.7.3-0.1) ...
*** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf, but
             the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer
             script should be fixed to not stop debconf before calling ucf,
             and pass it this parameter. For now, ucf will revert to using
             old-style, non-debconf prompting. Ugh!

             Please inform the package maintainer about this problem.
Need debconf to interact
dpkg: error processing dibbler-client (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dibbler-client

I've also reported this to the debian bugtracker, unfortunatelly without any response yet. See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544553

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

solved in natty.