Bug#569057: console-setup: starting console-setup fails silently

["Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>" <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz>]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.51
Severity: normal


When starting console-setup from X the console is not configured but no
error is printed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-rc6 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-terminus              4.26-2.1   Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  keyboard-configuration        1.51       system-wide keyboard preferences
ii  xkb-data                      1.7-2      X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii  console-tools              1:0.2.3dbs-68 Linux console and font utilities
ii  kbd-compat [kbd]           1:0.2.3dbs-68 Wrappers around console-tools for 

Versions of packages console-setup suggests:
ii  locales                       2.10.2-5   Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

-- debconf information excluded