Comment 26 for bug 25620

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:26:59 +0100
From: Eric Valette <email address hidden>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Frank_K=FCster?= <email address hidden>
CC: Joey Hess <email address hidden>, Norbert Preining <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>,
 teTeX maintainers <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install

Frank K=FCster wrote:
> Eric Valette <email address hidden> wrote:
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>>Eric Valette wrote:
>>
>>>Joey Hess wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>On Fre, 11 Nov 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Setting up tex-common (0.10) ...
>>>>>>>>debconf: Unable to load Debconf::Element::Dialog.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I imagine that a strace -f of a run of dpkg-reconfigure or any other
>>>>debconf command that reproduces the problem would show clearly what i=
t
>>>>is.
>>>>
>>>>Most likely is that the file has gone missing on the local system due=
 to
>>>>disk corruption, accidental deletion, or a screwed up local install o=
f
>>>>perl that's somehow not finding it.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Disks are clean. I reinstalled debconf, dialog. No change.
>>>
>>
>>I extracted the postinst script and run it manually. I have run "sh -x
>>./postinst configure" by hand, replaced by the maintainer version of I
>>don't remember what and the bug is gone??? Black magic somewhere.
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> Sorry, I don't completely understand: You don't know which package's
> postinst you were running? Or you do know this (which?) but don't
> remember where you took the postinst from?

I (of course!) took the postinst of the failing packages aka tex-common.
(Do not assume I'm stupid please). When I ran "postinst configure" it
prompted a dialog window asking to either keep my installed version of a
configuration file (THAT configuration file name I do not remember) and
I selected replace by maintainer version as I wanted to be sure the
problem was not comming from incompatible version of this configuration
file. The "postins" command suceeded and the "apt-get -f install" after i=
t.

So if the problem was involing only "debconf", I suspect the run by hand
"postinst configure" would have not solved it magically. You can
continue to play ping pong between tex-common and debconf or close the
bug. I guess it will resurface later via another bug.

BTW the bug leading for the change in tex-common 0.9->0.10 looks very
similar as my debconf default config is "dialog/LOW".

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