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RE: Configure error of console-data (reported already?)



Is it a bug?  The changelog for console-data specifically states that you
must have console-tools installed, or the new changes to the postinst will
not work.

IMHO, this means that console-data should depend on console-tools.  Wouldn't
everyone agree?  'Cept it doesn't, of course. ^_^

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Marc Wilson
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 -----Original Message-----
From: 	JP Sugarbroad [mailto:taral@taral.net]
Sent:	Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:50 AM
To:	debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Cc:	Yann Dirson
Subject:	Re: Configure error of console-data (reported already?)

 << File: ATT00077.dat >> On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:34:09PM -0500, Stephen
Frost wrote:
> * Svante Signell (svante.signell@telia.com) wrote:
> > Setting up console-data (1999.08.29-14) ...
> > NONE
> > cannot open file NONE
> > dpkg: error processing console-data (--configure):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
>         The reason for this is that you have kbd instead of console-tools
> installed.  Not totally sure what the difference is and suspect it's an
> actual bug that should be fixed, but thought I'd let you know in case you
> just want something that works: apt-get install console-tools

This is an actual bug. NONE is returned from a script called by
console-data.postinst when the user has requested that the script not
change the current keymap settings. However the postinst script doesn't
check for this, and proceeds to try to open a file called NONE.

[ Cc: console-data maintainer ]

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