RE: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior
Sounds like your debconf priority got set to "critical" ?
Try
> dpkg-reconfigure --priority low debconf
Actually, I am not in front of a debian box now, perhaps "low" should be in
quotes.
I believe there is also an environment variable you can set to do the same
thing.
hth,
-Josh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlo U. Segre [mailto:segre@iit.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:26 PM
> To: Debian Users List
> Subject: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior
>
>
>
> Hello:
>
> I have just encountered a problem that I have never seen during the
> installation of many, many Debian machines. I am mysitified
> and perhaps
> someone has a suggestion (probably some thing stupid, of course).
>
> I have been asked to help out with a newly installed machine
> (Woody) and
> when I added packages, I noticed that there were no debconf screens or
> questions for any packages.
>
> The command
>
> # dpkg-recnfigure debconf
> #
>
> Just returns to the prompt with no other output. From the
> debconf manual,
> this should at least ask me the quetions using the Dialog method.
>
> I have tried installing all the packages that exist on a working
> installation and this has no effect. I have tried manually
> editing the
> /var/cache/debconf/config.dat file to set options the way I
> want them for
> debconf but when I rerun the command above, debconf wipes out
> all the text
> I had placed in the file for debconf. The entries now look like:
>
> Name: debconf/frontend
> Template: debconf/frontend
> Value:
> Owners: debconf
> Flags: seen
>
> Name: debconf/priority
> Template: debconf/priority
> Value:
> Owners: debconf
> Flags: seen
>
> This is quite mystifying and I really do not know how to get
> out of this
> funny state. I have tried to uninstall debconf (using
> --force-depends)
> and then reinstalling it to no avail.
>
> Help!
>
> Carlo
>
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