Bug#178746: dpkg-reconfigure does not work

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Tue, 28 Jan 2003 16:15:01 +0200,
Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, +15:54:18 EET (UTC +0200),
> GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp> pressed some keys:
> 
> > At Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:02:56 +0200,
> > Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:
> > > Package: locales
> > > Version: 2.3.1-10
> > > 
> > > 
> > > If I give command "dpkg-reconfigure locales", it crashes and leaves my
> > > display garbled. If I give command "unset POSIXLY_CORRECT
> > > POSIX_ME_HARDER" before that command, everything goes fine.
> 
> > Is it glibc bug?  I think it's dpkg-reconfigure issue.
> 
> I think there is some buggy Perl-code somewhere. This kind of problems
> have been seen in alien and latex2html, formerly. They are both
> Perl-programs.

Yes, I also think it's perl code problem.  Please check
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86", it also behaves as same as glibc.

> Well, this kind of stuff can be seen after crash:
> 
> Filehandle STDIN opened only for output at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 139, <ERRFH> line 1. 
> Generating locales...                                     
> Generation complete.         

In my environment, it does not show some messages.
From your report, it seems that it's debconf problem.

So, could I reassign to debconf?

Regards,
-- gotom