Re: Debconf broken

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Tille, Andreas wrote:
> Guessing that there is a problem with the debconf database I tried
> 
>   dpkg-reconfigure debconf
> 
> which also leads to no output at all and a strace endet in
> 
>    fork()                                  = 8104
>    wait4(-1,
> 
> This is the end of my knowledge to track down the problem deeper.
> I have to say that I tried yesterday gkdebconf which perhaps might did
> some harm to the debconf database.
> 
> Any hint how to fix this and moreover make sure that this problem would
> not reapear on a not as patient user as me?

I'm stumped, maybe if you set DEBCONF_DEBUG=. and export DEBCONF_DEBUG
and reconfigure debconf again some of the debug information will provide
a clue to what's going on.

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