Bug#441958: locales: 'EOF on stdin at conffile prompt' on noninteractive update
reassign 441958 dpkg
thanks
Michael Eyrich a écrit :
> On Wednesday 12 September 2007, you wrote:
>> Michael Eyrich a écrit :
>>> 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) ...
>> Strange error, probably not in locales. Are you upgrading
>> from a script?
>
> yes. it's called from cron.daily. I guess, it shouldn't even
> start asking questions, should it?
>
Well I don't really know, but what is sure is that the problem is not in
locales as the question is not asked from locales scripts but from dpkg.
I am therefore reassigning the bug to dpkg where people could probably
answer you better than me.
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