Re: Latest Acct package broken?

[Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>]

On 16/11/99 Todd Suess wrote:

> I just did my nightly apt-get dist-upgrade, and it downloaded about 26
> packages, one of which was acct  6.3.5-16.  After downloading all 
> the packages,
> apt went right into configuring packages.  and it stopped.  and sat.  and sat.
> I let it sit about a half hour with no hard drive activity, before I 
> killed it.
> I went to /var/cache/apt/archives and manually did dpkg -i * and installed
> all the packages.  They all installed except acct, which did the exact same
> thing as with apt.   I purged acct completely, and tried apt-get install acct.
> Same thing.  I finally killed it again, and am currently running with
> accounting functions.  Anyone else run into this?

yup sure did, i tried to figure out what is going wrong but really 
did not find the problem, i suspect its something to do with debconf 
and/or perl.

I can tell you its definitely getting stuck in the postinst script.

I just manually performed the steps in the post install script and 
changed it to execute /bin/true :-) (i put the original one back 
after dpkg/apt were satisfied with the install) a quick look around 
and everything appears to be in order... probably not a good idea but 
i'm adventurous.



Best Regards,
Ethan Benson
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