Bug#162429: here are some requested logs

[David Kimdon <dwhedon@debian.org>]

Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:52:27PM +0200 wrote:
> I reinstalled slang1a-utf8 and started modconf. After some seconds, I
> got a blue screen with a prompt ... but I have to type 'reset' for a
> working shell.
> 
> Then I reinstalled slang1a-utf8 and whiptail-utf8 and then modconf
> started with a broken layout. But it works ... 

What do you mean broken layout?


> shaun:~# dpkg -l whiptail-utf8 slang1a-utf8
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                       Version                    Description
> +++-==========================-==========================-====================================================================
> pn  whiptail-utf8              <none>                     (no description available)
> pn  slang1a-utf8               <none>                     (no description available)

woh, that's not what I expected, this means you had the whiptail (non
utf8) package installed, and it was trying to link with the utf8 slang
package, not good.  There may still be a bug here, how about:

# apt-get install whiptail -q

Then do :
$ objdump --private-headers /usr/bin/whiptail  | grep slang
  NEEDED      libslang.so.1
$ 

That is what you should see, and everything should still work, but if
you see:
  NEEDED      libslang.so.1-UTF8

after installing the non-utf8 whiptail then we still have a bug
somewhere.

I just manually checked whiptail_0.50.17-9.6_powerpc.deb and
whiptail_0.50.17-9.8_powerpc.deb off ftp.debian.org and they looked
right.

-David