Will Lowe wrote: > > Is there anyone on the list who has/had problems with the acpid > > postinst/config scripts? I can't reproduce the bug on my systems > > and I don't see where/why it happens for the user who reported > > the bug... > > (I'm the user who reported the bug, although it seems to have happened > to at least one other person from looking at the BTS). > > It happens on line 4 of acpid.postinst, where it tries to source > /usr/share/debconf/confmodule. See: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=234270&msg=9 > > I've tried purging and reinstalling it several times, keeps coming > back. Looks to me like the debconf frontend is failing, although I > don't know why that would happen, since debconf works fine with all > the other packages on my system. > > I've copied Joey Hess on this message in case he can shed some light > on the debconf funkiness. (Please don't send vital information to control@bugs, that makes it invisible to future readers.) I see no indication from what you sent that it's at all related to debconf. Put the set -x in the script, passing it at the command line does not work for scripts using debconf. -- see shy jo
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