tag 247712 + unreproducible moreinfo retitle 247712 xdm: postinst fails if init script fails to start thanks On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 06:42:31PM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > Package: xdm > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 > > On configuration stage, xdm does a /etc/init.d/xdm start which will fail > and subsequently make the configuration stage to fail if the > configuration is done: > 1) in an automatic install environment with a fake start-stop-daemon > (like debootstrap) > 2) on a server that has no proper hardware to start xdm (no video card) > > I think that the best option would be to make failure of start atempt to > non-fatal to the post-install script, This is already the case: % grep 'xdm start' /var/lib/dpkg/info/xdm.p* /var/lib/dpkg/info/xdm.postinst:[ -n "$NOSTART" ] || invoke-rc.d xdm start || true /var/lib/dpkg/info/xdm.postrm: [ -n "$NOSTART" ] || invoke-rc.d xdm start || true Can you please explain your problem again in light of the above? -- G. Branden Robinson | A celibate clergy is an especially Debian GNU/Linux | good idea, because it tends to branden@debian.org | suppress any hereditary propensity http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | toward fanaticism. -- Carl Sagan
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