Re: dpkg/debconf complaining
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 07:32:31PM +0200, Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson wrote:
> I'm beginning to have major problems with updating new packages for
> testing.
>
> I'm having problem with amongst others man-db. I'm having similar problems
> with xserver-xfree86, xserver-common and more.
>
> For troubleshooting purposes I added 'set -x' but It didn't help me very
> much. Hope anyone can tell me how to resolve from these problems.
>
> Output from:
> Setting up man-db (2.3.19-6) ...
> + '[' configure = configure ']'
> + oldcatdir=/var/catman
> + catdir=/var/cache/man
> + maybesetuid=man mandb
> + conffile=/etc/manpath.config
> + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
> ++ '[' '!' '' ']'
> ++ set -x
> ++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst
> configure ''
> dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> man-db
If you could try 'DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer dpkg --configure man-db'
(probably with the 'set -x' removed), that would be helpful.
I don't *think* it's a problem with man-db, but you never know ... what
version of debconf do you have installed?
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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