adept does not display license agreement when installing sun java

[Richard Birnie]

Binary package hint: sun-java5-bin

System Kubuntu 6.10.
bug also affects sun-java5-jre
When attempting to install sun-java5-bin and/or sun-java5-jre using adept the install hangs at the point when it should display the license agreement for confirmation. If I press the show details button the license is visible but there is no way to select OK using either the mouse or the keyboard.

The only way to resolve this is to kill adept manually. However this leaves adept in an unusable condition. I have given a work around below but adept needs to handle this more gracefully. Other people have experienced this problem as described here
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=282987
Work around

#manually kill adept
sudo killall adept

#this is necessary to get adept to work again
sudo dpkg --configure -a

#install java manually from the commandline. Using this method the license agreement is displayed correctly and can be confirmed so the install proceeds
sudo apt-get install sun-java5-jre
sudo apt-get install sun-java5-bin

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

so this is really a bug in adept then.

[Richard Birnie (rbirnie-deactivatedaccount)]

Yes, Sorry. Thanks for pointing that out

[Marnen Laibow-Koser (marnen)]

The bug's an emergent property of both adept and java5, I'd say. The problem is both that java5 was packaged to display the license agreement in that fashion and that adept does not handle it better.

[Wesley Stessens (wesley)]

I experienced the same problem. It also happens with other programs using the console for a license agreement. it is important that this gets fixed as soon as possible.

[Anthony Mercatante (tonio)]

That's in the adept feisty spec.
The problem is due to kdesu and profile loading, since the graphical qt/debconf frontend should appear there.
Changed status to "in progress" since that's handled by the Kubuntu devel team for the feisty release

[Anthony Mercatante (tonio)]

Today's upload fixes the xauthority.
Adept now uses kdebconf correctly

[Wolf St. Kappesser (wsk)]

Get this error again on KDE 4, ubuntu hardy, amd64.

[Wolf St. Kappesser (wsk)]

Add:

Using java 6.
Newest repos from standard hardy paths for all packages.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Not an issue in Intrepid.