Re: postinst won't exit when..?
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 11:23:05AM +0800, Niall Young wrote:
> I've got a postinst that seems to be executing all code fine with
> `set -ev` but won't actually exit back to the shell.
>
> I'm running a perl script halfway through and it exits cleanly, but
> if I comment it out the postinst finally exits. Uncomment it and
> the postinst hangs.. Any ideas? Does anything trap a postinst exit?
It helps if you include a copy of the problematic script. My guess is that
you are using debconf, and have not read this:
zgrep hang /usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/tutorial.txt.gz
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- mdz
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