On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:55:04AM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:19:54PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Please show me (er, well, mail this bug) the output of the misbehaving > > dpkg-reconfigure command after doing this: > > > > # export DEBUG_XFREE86_PACKAGE=yes > > polya2:~ # export DEBUG_XFREE86_PACKAGE=yes > polya2:~ # dpkg-reconfigure xdm > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog > debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.) > debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline > System startup links for /etc/init.d/xdm already exist. > polya2:~ # > > Not so much info there, I'm afraid :-( Grrr. All right, show me *this*: /usr/share/debconf/frontend sh -x /var/lib/dpkg/info/xdm.config reconfigure -- G. Branden Robinson | Lowery's Law: Debian GNU/Linux | If it jams -- force it. If it branden@debian.org | breaks, it needed replacing anyway. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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