Bug#293710: extranious quote in dpkg-preconfigure kills package configuration
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.10.26
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
Tags: patch
Upgrading and installing packages on a recently installed sid system,
I found that a package failed configuration with errors pointing to
dpkg-preconfigure. It appears there is a mismatched quote on
dpkg-preconfigure line 96, removed in the attached patch.
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String found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96, near "die sprintf(gettext(""
(Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 94)
(Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96, near "die sprintf(gettext("debconf"
(Do you need to predeclare die?)
Unquoted string "debconf" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96.
String found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 103, near "gettext(""
(Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 96)
(Missing semicolon on previous line?)
Bareword found where operator expected at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 104, near "$package, $confmodule"
(Might be a runaway multi-line ff string starting on line 103)
(Missing operator before dule?)
Unquoted string "dule" may clash with future reserved word at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 104.
syntax error at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 96, near "die sprintf(gettext(""
Unmatched right curly bracket at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 108, at end of line
syntax error at /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure line 108, near "}"
Execution of /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure aborted due to compilation errors.
Setting up libgtk2.0-bin (2.6.1-2) ...
Updating the IM modules list for GTK+-2.4.0...done.
Updating the gdk-pixbuf loaders list for GTK+-2.4.0...done.
Failed to write cache file: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing libgtk2.0-bin (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
libgtk2.0-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the
packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors
or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors
above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again
Press enter to continue.
Setting up libgtk2.0-bin (2.6.1-2) ...
Updating the IM modules list for GTK+-2.4.0...done.
Updating the gdk-pixbuf loaders list for GTK+-2.4.0...done.
Failed to write cache file: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing libgtk2.0-bin (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
libgtk2.0-bin
installation script returned error exit status 100.
Press <enter> to continue.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: sparc (sparc64)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-sparc64
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii dselect 1.10.26 a user tool to manage Debian packa
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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Blars Blarson blarson@blars.org
http://www.blars.org/blars.html
With Microsoft, failure is not an option. It is a standard feature.
--- /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure~ 2005-02-03 18:22:01.000000000 -0800
+++ /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure 2005-02-04 23:45:13.000000000 -0800
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@
foreach my $line (@buffer) {
($package, $version, $template, $config)=split /\s/, $line;
if (defined $config && length $config && -e $config) {
- debug user => sprintf(gettext("preconfiguring %s (%s)",$package,$version))";
+ debug user => sprintf(gettext("preconfiguring %s (%s)",$package,$version));
chmod(0755, $config) or
die sprintf(gettext("debconf: can't chmod: %s"), $!);
$frontend->default_title($package);
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