Re: Bug#178373: debconf: severity critical

[Bernhard Kuemel <darsie@gmx.at>]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> 
> Le jeu 30/01/2003 à 19:44, Joey Hess a écrit :
> > > Setting up debconf (1.2.21) ...
> > > option -q not recognized
> > > usage: python compileall.py [-l] [-f] [-d destdir] [-s regexp]
> >
> > What version of python2.2 do you have installed?
> > What does it say when you run --
> >
> > sh -ex /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst configure 1.2.21
> >
> > I was told by some python people that I could use -q after compileall to
> > shut it up, if that no longer works it is porbably a bug in python or
> > possibly debhelper, not debconf.
> 
> Your python installation is screwed. The compileall.py module in Debian
> does support -q in all versions. It's not possible to be mistaken about
> that, as the error message included in Debian's compileall.py is not
> exactly this one.

Thank you very much. I had python 2.1 installed and with 2.2 the
problem disappeared. Seems python2.2 should be a dependency for
debconf and mailman.

There is, however, a new error message in the mailman configuration
but I'll file that as a new bug:

s:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not
upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Setting up mailman (2.0.13-2) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/bin/update", line 31, in ?
    from Mailman import Utils
  File "/var/lib/mailman/Mailman/Utils.py", line 32, in ?
    import random
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/random.py", line 76, in ?
    from math import log as _log, exp as _exp, pi as _pi, e as _e
ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python2.2/lib-dynload/math.so: undefined
symbol: PyFPE_jbuf
dpkg: error processing mailman (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mailman
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Bernhard