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Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon



[Mark Brown]
> You need to explicitly end Debconf processing in the postinst by
> calling db_stop.  debconf causes child processes to have an extra
> file descriptor open and waits for these to be closed before exiting
> and the daemon doesn't know it has this file open so doesn't close
> it.

Is this the case for all postinst scripts?  db_stop is not mentioned
in my /usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/tutorial.html, which I use as my
debconf reference.



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