Bug#441958: locales: 'EOF on stdin at conffile prompt' on noninteractive update
Package: locales
Version: 2.6.1-3
Severity: normal
the following code snippet
>>>
# one of dialog|noninteractive|readline|
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
# one of low|medium|high|critical
export DEBIAN_PRIORITY=high
[...]
apt-get -fuy upgrade || errcnt="$?"
<<<
lead to the following error message:
Setting up locales (2.6.1-3) ...
Configuration file `/etc/locale.alias'
==> File on system created by you or by a script.
==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : background this process to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** locale.alias (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
EOF on stdin at conffile prompt
Setting up aspell-de (20070829-3) ...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.6-tkn-piv-2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages locales depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 [glibc-2.6-1] 2.6.1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
locales recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
* locales/default_environment_locale: en_IE.UTF-8@euro
* locales/locales_to_be_generated: de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8, de_DE@euro ISO-8859-15, en_US ISO-8859-1, de_DE.UTF-8@euro UTF-8, en_GB ISO-8859-1, en_GB.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_IE ISO-8859-1, en_IE.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_IE.UTF-8@euro UTF-8, en_IE@euro ISO-8859-15, en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15, en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
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