Re: Term Variable in automatic updates SOLVED

["Josep M. Gasso" <websurfer@navegants.com>]

Hello.

Just now I found what was giving error, the package console-setup was
not installed, installing this all is ok, of course I will add the
environment variable DEBCONF_FRONTEND=noninteractive to my script.

Thanks
Josep

El mié, 05-01-2011 a las 11:04 +0000, Roger Leigh escribió:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:31:16AM +0100, Josep M. Gasso wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I have one script for do automatic updates with aptitude, the TERM
> > variable in my system is xterm
> > 
> > 
> > $ echo ${TERM}
> > xterm
> > 
> > 
> > But, what value should be set for the TERM variable when doing automatic
> > updates?
> 
> It should be unset: there is no terminal for user interaction.
> Setting DEBCONF_FRONTEND=noninteractive will prevent the warning
> messages you were seeing.
> 
> > As now seems that fails for this.
> > 
> > Setting up console-setup (1.66) ...
> > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
> > debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
> > debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
> > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
> > debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
> > debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
> > Configuring console-setup
> 
> There's no failure here, it's just falling back on different
> methods.  Setting DEBCONF_FRONTEND will simply select the
> noninteractive frontend by default (any questions will simply
> use the default).
> 
> > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
> > debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
> > debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
> > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
> > debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
> > debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
> > Configuring console-setup
> > -------------------------
> > 
> > Please choose the character set that should be supported by the console
> > font.
> > 
> > Character set to support: 
> > Use of uninitialized value $_[1] in join or string
> > at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 111.
> > sed: -e expression #1, char 9: unterminated `s' command
> 
> This is a bug in either Debconf or the maintainer script using
> debconf.  I highly recommend reporting it to the console-setup
> and/or debconf maintainers.
> 
> > dpkg: error processing console-setup (--configure):
> >  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
> > status 128
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Roger
>