Re: postinst won't exit when..?
On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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
Sounds like it, but I've already tried redirecting stdour and stderr to
/dev/null, will try stdin and 3 too. Cheers!
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