Bug#195723: tetex-bin: postinstall script dies, making tetex-bin uninstallable

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 01.06.03 Matei Conovici (cmatei@profis.ro) wrote:

Hi,

> I've edited /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-bin.postinst and added a "set -x"
> at the beginning. Results below:
> 
> ork:~# dpkg -D2 --configure tetex-bin
> Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-4) ...
> D000002: fork/exec /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-bin.postinst ( )
> + '[' configure '!=' configure ']'
> + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
> ++ '[' '!' '' ']'
> ++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-bin.postinst configure 1.0.7+20011202-8
> dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  tetex-bin
> 
I'm not sure, if it is helpful. Could you please leave that set -x
there and then just call
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-bin.postinst configure
? This is just a wild guess. I'm afraid it doesn't bring us anything
new.
The postin-Skript calls /usr/share/debconf/frontend with the three
parameters "/var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-bin.postinst configure
1.0.7+20011202-8" and fails. Does anybody know how to get
/usr/share/debconf/frontend to start chatting? AFAICS it is called
with the -w switch. Could you try to hand over a debug-switch in that
perl-skript?

H., clueless
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