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Re: problem with debconf and start-stop-daemon



On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:04:25PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [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.

See the "Troubleshooting" section. The debconf documentation often
doesn't use the db_ prefix when discussing commands, since that's only
used by the shell confmodule and not the Perl confmodule.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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