On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:46:20PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 04:43:31AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > >> I can't think of any reason. When I hit Z and press enter, the message > >> gets printed and then the conffile prompt comes right back up. > > > > Can you please try out the pkg at > > http://people.debian.org/~djpig/dpkg_1.13.19.0djpig1_powerpc.deb > > > > It should at least give you a useful error message. > > I don't run powerpc, but I grabbed the source from > http://people.debian.org/~djpig/dpkg_1.13.19.0djpig1.tar.gz and built an > i386 package to test.
Ehmm, yeah, sorry for that... > I extensively tested installing, upgrading, downgrading, and conffile > modification, using a local test package, and couldn't seem to reproduce > the problem with either 1.13.19 or 1.13.19.0djpig1 . (By the way, out > of curiosity, what did you add? The only change in .0djpig1 looks > unrelated to conffiles or backgrounding.) Ehhmm, yeah, sorry for that, too. I indeed applied the wrong patch... > This can only occur along the path leading to a SIGTSTP rather than a > shell, which shouldn't occur when running under aptitude since > libapt-pkg sets DPKG_NO_TSTP when invoking dpkg. The only reason for that to go wrong that I could think of out of my head are either something cleaning the environment, like sudo. But it would new to me that aptitude runs "sudo dpkg". Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
