Comment 12 for bug 979661
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 979661] Re: oneiric to precise: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome and falls back to Dialog | #12 |
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 05:48:18PM -0000, jackel wrote:
> i'd like to know if what i experienced on 3 different updates in the
> last 2 days, is this bug or if something else needs to be reported?
Yes, this is exactly the same bug.
> ...i think the update should open the terminal window automatically when
> it gets to that point (Preparing libc6?), as a new user will not know
> enough to open the "show details" window to reveal the prompt and
> continue.
I quite agree, and I understand there's meant to be code already here to do
that, which seems to be failing.