Comment 2 for bug 130519

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote : Re: [gutsy] debconf unable to initialize frontend

Hmm, no, never mind, I think it might be this change:

r2183 | joeyh | 2006-12-20 18:53:36 +0000 (Wed, 20 Dec 2006) | 4 lines

* Add need_tty field to frontend objects. dpkg-preconfigure can test
  this if it fails to reopen /dev/tty, and avoid dying if the frontend
  doesn't care about the tty, as happens in g-i when preconfiguring using
  the passthrough frontend. Closes: #401876

I think the bug here is that debconf selects the Teletype frontend for you; it should really select Noninteractive instead.

I still think something else must have changed in your environment on July 17th, since this change has been in debconf since before 7.04, but never mind ...