Re: several packages failing -- is debconf broke?
on Thursday 12/05/2002 Joey Hess(joeyh@debian.org) wrote
> John covici wrote:
> > debconf (developer): <-- [11;80][10;1800]VERSION 2.0
> > dpkg: error processing foomatic-bin (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
>
> > debconf (developer): <-- [11;80][10;1800]VERSION 2.0
> > dpkg: error processing locales (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
>
> Well the problem seems to be this garbage that is being fed into
> debconf, and so it returns a protocol error (code 20). It looks like
> terminal escape codes. Any idea why your echo command would be
> outputting escape sequences when told to echo something like
> "VERSION 2.0"?
Maybe the debug code in debconf is doing this?
>
> --
> see shy jo
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John Covici
covici@ccs.covici.com
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