Comment 3 for bug 314637

Hi there Chris,

yes I certainly did accept the license. I will try to be more complete here: it happened somewhere in the new 2.6.28-4 kernels. Someone has upgraded the dpkg-reconfigure command. It works all in all just great now.

<below: dpkg-reconfigure -p low debconf ; choose 2. readline + (priority) 4. low>

Improvements:

when running dpkg-reconfiguring -au (-p low is now automated):

when hit ca-certificates-java, all previous chosen certificates (141!) are remembered. Just click enter.

Autorisation for PAM options are remembered. Just click enter.
(e.g. 1. unix 2. consolekit 3. libpam-ldap 4. ecrypt* 5. cracklib ....)

flashplugin-nonfree is remembered.

Problem:

previously the install directory had to be typed in manual. The first time I noticed this:

accept license option was remembered, but displayed as yes; instead of y (the obvious choice upon previous prompt Y/n).

Also download directory was remembered: /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree. Since 2.6.28-4.8 this became deprecated. When I fill in /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree the problem occurs. I am now still running dpkg-reconfigure -au. When that is finished I can still root# rm /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/* ; dpkg-reconfigure flashplugin-nonfree (leave download directory blank - option yes fir license is remembered - this was last time anyway)

It seems like 1 kernel a day now with alfa-3, and I run this after every upgrade requiring reboot. Other than that this command is perfectly improved! (except some esthetics, like WARNING this + cannot rm that - I does not bother me and is overread)

Is there a dpkg alternative for this command (like dpkg -i instead of install something /somewhere)?

Is a gdb-backtrace possible of debconf or gkdebconf? (if needed)

Should I try: $ apt-get source flashplugin-nonfree ; $ sudo su and root# rm /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/* ; cp ~/somestuff /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree

thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ apt-get source flashplugin-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Need to get 25.8kB of source archives.
Get: 1 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.15.3ubuntu2 (dsc) [1569B]
Get: 2 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/multiverse flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.15.3ubuntu2 (tar) [24.2kB]
Fetched 25.8kB in 4s (5684B/s)
gpg: Signature made Sat 03 Jan 2009 13:05:15 GMT using RSA key ID 140C6664
gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found
dpkg-source: extracting flashplugin-nonfree in flashplugin-nonfree-10.0.15.3ubuntu2
dpkg-source: info: unpacking flashplugin-nonfree_10.0.15.3ubuntu2.tar.gz
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ ls -la flash*
-rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 1569 2009-01-03 14:04 flashplugin-nonfree_10.0.15.3ubuntu2.dsc
-rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 24235 2009-01-03 14:04 flashplugin-nonfree_10.0.15.3ubuntu2.tar.gz

flashplugin-nonfree-10.0.15.3ubuntu2:
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 3 thomas thomas 4096 2008-10-15 17:36 .
drwxr-xr-x 74 thomas thomas 36864 2009-01-07 09:14 ..
drwxr-xr-x 4 thomas thomas 4096 2009-01-03 13:05 debian
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ ls -la /flash*/debian/*
ls: cannot access /flash*/debian/*: No such file or directory
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ ls -la /flash*/debian/
ls: cannot access /flash*/debian/: No such file or directory
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$ ls -la flash*/debian/
total 104
drwxr-xr-x 4 thomas thomas 4096 2009-01-03 13:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 thomas thomas 4096 2008-10-15 17:36 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 37035 2009-01-03 13:05 changelog
-rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 2 2008-10-15 17:36 compat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 thomas thomas 1411 2008-10-15 17:36 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 2134 2008-10-15 17:36 control
-rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 1529 2008-10-15 17:36 copyright
-rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 269 2008-10-15 17:36 dirs
-rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 73 2008-10-15 17:36 flashplugin-nonfree.install
-rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 73 2008-10-15 17:36 install
-rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 0 2008-10-15 17:36 links
drwxr-xr-x 2 thomas thomas 4096 2008-10-15 17:36 lintianoverrides
drwxr-xr-x 2 thomas thomas 4096 2008-10-15 17:36 po
-rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 4433 2009-01-03 13:03 postinst
-rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 3290 2008-10-15 17:36 prerm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 thomas thomas 65 2008-10-15 17:36 rules
-rw-r--r-- 1 thomas thomas 978 2008-10-15 17:36 templates
thomas@thomas-laptop:~$

BTW abiword does not know esthetics nor an alternative.

Cheers,

Thomas