On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:43:32PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 12:02:58PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > | Stephen Liu(satimis@icare.com.hk) is reported to have said: > | > | > One problem I have encountered - during debconf when it came to; <snip> > He did, most likely. > | > Then I ran; > | > # dpkg --configure -a <snip> > It hanged here again. > > There's a bug, somewhere, that I just discovered last night and this > morning. > > The process (in my case it was 'ucf' for both packages) gets stuck in > the Sleeping state and doesn't receive any keyboard input. > > I don't know what the bug is, but I do know the two ways I worked around it : > a) when ucf hangs, look at the command line parameters using > pstree or gnome-system-monitor. run it manually and update > the config file so that ucf/dpkg doesn't detect a difference > and doesn't prompt you > > b) edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/PKG.postinst to remove the invocation > of ucf on the config file that is different and you don't want > changed anyways > > Of course, the applicability of these workarounds depends on what the > config file is, what you want to do with it, and how the package is > organized. > > > Based on Stephen's description, I think the following programs are not > to blame : > aptitude, xterm, dselect, konsole > but these haven't been ruled out : > dpkg, ucf > I know that running ucf manually does not reveal the issue. > > HTH, > -D <snip> Hi folks, I've had some 'configure' issues that may/may not be related. I tried these for debugging. first, did: dpkg --debug=7777 -i /var/cache/apt/packages/kdm<version>.deb 2>&1 | more then noticed it displays info about an error in kdm.postinst. so, I edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdm.postinst. It has at to 'set -e' which I remove and added: set -v this displays the scripts output so that you can see more info. BUT after you do a 'dpkg -i' you need to do 'dpkg --configure -a' and NOT another 'dpkg -i' because 'dpkg -i' will OVERRIGHT the changes to /var/lib/dpkg/info/kdm.postinst. HTH -Kev HTH
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