Re: Bug#57657: upgrade of base-config fails (fwd)
Chris Ricker wrote:
> I've done some more poking around, and figured out where it's breaking. In
> the stage5 postinstall, it executes /root/dbootstrap_settings if that
> exists.
>
> [kaboom@hanuman base-config]$ sudo cat /root/dbootstrap_settings
> BUILDTIME='20000126-2144'
> /tmp/keybd_settings: No such file or directory
Good greif, that is seriously broken.
> However, I'm not sure where dbootstrap_settings comes from, why mine says
> what it says, if it should be there, what base-config should be doing with
> it, etc. It looks like it was created when I installed the system (late
> January, using the potato boot disks), and never modified since.
That is correct. I suspect this is a bug in the boot floppies, which is
hopefully fixed in the current revision of them. You can safely delete that
file -- it should have been deleted already.
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