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Bug#362891: xserver-xorg: post-installation script fails during install



This one time, at band camp, Steve Langasek said:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 01:15:03AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> 
> > I just ran across this and tried that - it dies right after sourcing the
> > debconf confmodule - debconf's exec line to restart the scripts exit's
> > 64.
> 
> Thanks, that's pretty much what I expected, though I have no idea why it's
> happening. :/
> 
> Couple of wild guesses:
> 
> - is your system configured to use cdebconf?

No - /usr/share/debconf/frontend is invoked.

> - what do you have as /bin/sh?

/bin/bash

Except for potentially vast amounts of cruft dating back to slink or
potato, this machine shouldn't have too much unusual about it.  It's odd
that a reasonably fresh install on another machine does not fail here,
though, so I will dig a bit and see what I can find.
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