Bug#413249: severity of 413249 is important, tagging 413249
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:02:07PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> I removed the content of /var/cache/debconf, dpkg-reconfigure'd debconf,
> and tried again, but that didn't help.
> Somehow still debconf's answers are not what the config script expects.
> Upon reinstalling x11-common with "set -xv", I get
> # next question requires input validation; assume safe valid value already
> # present (possibly the template default)
> SAFE=
> + SAFE=
> if db_get x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value; then
> SAFE="$RET"
> fi
> + db_get x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value
> + _db_cmd 'GET x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value'
> + IFS=' '
> + printf '%s\n' 'GET x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value'
> debconf (developer): <-- GET x11-common/xwrapper/nice_value
> debconf (developer): --> 0 0
> + IFS='
> '
> + read -r _db_internal_line
> + RET='value set'
> + case ${_db_internal_line%%[ ]*} in
> + return 0
> + SAFE='value set'
> Why on earth is "$RET" now "value set", where it should be "0"?
Good question. What does 'debconf-show x11-common' spit out at this point?
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