Bug#247849:

[Rodrigo Real <rreal@inf.ufrgs.br>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> writes:


Hi guys

I have been too busy after I send the bug report, so I could not
answer your questions. I am sorry for that.

Maybe that error were some specific situation in which my computer
was. I did the same with other computers and did not have the same
problem. 

The only thing I can tell you is that modifying the line 76 in
Question.pm solve the problem, which shows that the problem was really
comming from that. Unfortunatelly I didn't took a list of all the
packages, and it's versions, I had by the time it happened. What I did
was:

change this block:

sub description {
	my $this=shift;
	return $this->_expand_vars($this->template->description);
}

to:

sub description {
	my $this=shift;
#	return $this->_expand_vars($this->template->description);
        return 0;
}

Cheers,
Rodrigo

> On 10.05.04 Rodrigo Real (rreal@inf.ufrgs.br) wrote:
>
> Hi 
>
>> In fact I missed some lines of my message. This was the correct text.
>> I installed the package by changing the line which shows this problem:
>> 
>> Instalando tetex-extra (2.0.2-8) ...
>> Can't call method "description" on an undefined value at 
>> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 76, <GEN0> line 1.
>> 
>> I changed the line to 'return 0' and could install the package. I
>> don't know if this bug is really from tetex-extra, but it seems so.
>> 
> We don't call debconf in postsinst of tetex-extra so I have no clue,
> where that message should come from. Frank, did you hear anything
> further from Joe?
>
> Hilmar 
> -- 
> sigmentation fault