Hi, On 29.11.2016 17:58, Svante Signell wrote: > After upgrading to sid the conffiles don't seem to be installed any longer? > Examples are bash, passwd, basefiles and libpam-runtime. Especially trhe last > one cost me a day debugging to find out why logins crashed. What is causing > this, do I have some settings disabling conffiles? Or is this all due to the > merge of /usr? If so, how to revert that change until it is stable! The usual rule applies: if dpkg thinks the conffile has been deliberately deleted, it will not install a new version on top. The question is how that happened. It would be great if you could archive /var/lib/dpkg prior to repairing your system, so in case the dpkg maintainers want to look at it, they at least have half a chance of getting to the root of the problem. To force reinstallation of configuration files, invoke dpkg with the "--force-confmiss" option when installing. This will only restore missing configuration files, but not overwrite changed ones. If some configuration files were damaged, you can use "--force-confnew" to unpack all configuration files; your old files can be found with a ".dpkg-old" suffix then. Simon
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