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Re: debconf problem during upgrade



Eric Richardson wrote:
> I think there is a problem with debconf or whatever the interface is 
> that is used to answer questions during upgrade from potato to woody.
> 
> The problem occurs like this. You walk away from the machine and then 
> one of these configuration screens comes up, and then the monitor blanks 
> out for power saving. Next you come back and press space bar and then 
> whatever question was pending goes through before you have a chance to 
> answer it. It's like hitting the space bar acts as a return and the 
> default action gets executed.

If you feel strongly about this, file a bug on whiptail or change to a
different debconf frontend; only the dialog frontend is likely to behave
this way, it probably sometimes interprets space as selecting a button
in the UI.

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see shy jo


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