Control: reassign -1 debconf Note for debconf maintainers: I am reassigning because this doesn't seem to have anything to do with aptitude, so hopefully you will know if this is a matter concerning debconf or hopefully could point in the right direction.
2015-09-09 3:25 GMT+01:00 Karl O. Pinc <[email protected]>: > On Mon, 7 Sep 2015 22:23:16 +0100 > "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2015-09-06 20:12 Karl O. Pinc: >> >On Sun, 6 Sep 2015 16:15:56 +0100 >> >"Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> Also, what does happen if you use apt-get instead? >> > >> >I don't know. It's not clear to me how to create >> >a test environment to reproduce the problem. It requires >> >that an installed package get an update put into a repo >> >and that the update makes changes to a user-modifed >> >config file (right?) so that debconf is invoked when >> >the update is installed. >> >> Perhaps it also work installing some package that you don't need, but >> it is harmless, and know for sure that uses debconf? > > I don't think that installing is going to reproduce the > problem -- it's on upgrade that debconf really wants > to ask questions when a new config is incompatible with > a user-modified config. I see, I thought that it was happening with any debconf question, that's why I thuoght that installing any new package would do. > Per a suggestion on IRC #debian I tried (because I saw > the problem with apache2): > > dpkg-i \ > /var/cache/apt/archives/apache2_2.4.10-10+deb8u1_i386.deb \ > /var/cache/apt/archives/apache2-bin_2.4.10-10+deb8u1_i386.deb \ > /var/cache/apt/archives ^M/apache2-data_2.4.10-10+deb8u1_all.deb > > I believe this would get me back to the version which, on upgrade, > I saw the problem. But I could not reproduce the problem. > > My current apache2 version is: 2.4.10-10+deb8u3 > > Note that the apache2 changelog says: > > apache2 (2.4.10-10+deb8u2) jessie; urgency=medium > > [ Stefan Fritsch ] > * Fix upgrade logic: When upgrading from wheezy with apache2.2-common > but without apache2 installed to jessie, part of the conffile > handling logic would not run, causing outdated conffile content to be > kept. This is part of the solution for bug #794933. The other part > will be included in the upgrade to Debian 9 (stretch). > <snip> > -- Stefan Fritsch <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:52:37 +0200 > > Seems to me that whatever fix was made to the upgrade logic > is what triggered the problem, but that's a guess. > > >> If you cannot test with the suggestion above, I think that it's better >> to reassign to debconf package itself, let me know if you want me to >> do this. > > Since I'm kinda stuck reproducing the problem I think you'd > better reassign this to the debconf package. Maybe they'll > be able to help. As I said above, reassigned now. > For the sake of completeness I've found the log output > which prompted this report. It > dates to: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 06:26:00 -0500 (CDT) > > (Now you know what the problem looks like. :-) > > (FYI: Although aptitude is being invoked with --quiet=2 > it's outputting it's dynamic progress report. A change > from Wheezy and something I should put into another > bug report.) "Reading database" is a message from dpkg, not aptitude, and although in some cases aptitude calls dpkg directly, I think that in this case this call is made from apt (so the chain is aptitude->apt->dpkg). We do not have facilities to pass "verboseness/quietness" down the chain. So to report this, dpkg is a better place, I think; I suppose that it would better not print the progress when the terminal cannot handle updating lines. > ------------------------<snip>------------------------- > The following packages will be upgraded: > apache2 apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils > libicu52 > 6 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 8,384 kB of archives. After unpacking 7,168 B will be freed. > (Reading database ... > (Reading database ... 5% > (Reading database ... 10% > (Reading database ... 15% > (Reading database ... 20% > (Reading database ... 25% > (Reading database ... 30% > (Reading database ... 35% > (Reading database ... 40% > (Reading database ... 45% > (Reading database ... 50% > (Reading database ... 55% > (Reading database ... 60% > (Reading database ... 65% > (Reading database ... 70% > (Reading database ... 75% > (Reading database ... 80% > (Reading database ... 85% > (Reading database ... 90% > (Reading database ... 95% > (Reading database ... 100% > (Reading database ... 86260 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to > unpack .../apache2-mpm-prefork_2.4.10-10+deb8u1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking > apache2-mpm-prefork (2.4.10-10+deb8u1) over (2.4.10-10) ... Preparing > to unpack .../apache2_2.4.10-10+deb8u1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking apache2 > (2.4.10-10+deb8u1) over (2.4.10-10) ... Preparing to > unpack .../apache2-bin_2.4.10-10+deb8u1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking > apache2-bin (2.4.10-10+deb8u1) over (2.4.10-10) ... Preparing to > unpack .../apache2-utils_2.4.10-10+deb8u1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking > apache2-utils (2.4.10-10+deb8u1) over (2.4.10-10) ... Preparing to > unpack .../apache2-data_2.4.10-10+deb8u1_all.deb ... Unpacking > apache2-data (2.4.10-10+deb8u1) over (2.4.10-10) ... Preparing to > unpack .../libicu52_52.1-8+deb8u2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking > libicu52:amd64 (52.1-8+deb8u2) over (52.1-8) ... Processing triggers > for systemd (215-17+deb8u1) ... Processing triggers for man-db > (2.7.0.2-5) ... Setting up apache2-bin (2.4.10-10+deb8u1) ... > Setting up apache2-utils (2.4.10-10+deb8u1) ... > Setting up apache2-data (2.4.10-10+deb8u1) ... > Setting up apache2 (2.4.10-10+deb8u1) ... > > Configuration file '/etc/apache2/ports.conf' > ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. > ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. > What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: > Y or I : install the package maintainer's version > N or O : keep your currently-installed version > D : show the differences between the versions > Z : start a shell to examine the situation > The default action is to keep your current version. > *** ports.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? dpkg: error processing > package apache2 (--configure): EOF on stdin at conffile prompt > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache2-mpm-prefork: > apache2-mpm-prefork depends on apache2 (= 2.4.10-10+deb8u1); however: > Package apache2 is not configured yet. > > dpkg: error processing package apache2-mpm-prefork (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Setting up libicu52:amd64 (52.1-8+deb8u2) ... > Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18) ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > apache2 > apache2-mpm-prefork > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > Failed to perform requested operation on package. Trying to recover: > Setting up apache2 (2.4.10-10+deb8u1) ... > > Configuration file '/etc/apache2/ports.conf' > ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. > ==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version. > What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: > Y or I : install the package maintainer's version > N or O : keep your currently-installed version > D : show the differences between the versions > Z : start a shell to examine the situation > The default action is to keep your current version. > *** ports.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? dpkg: error processing > package apache2 (--configure): EOF on stdin at conffile prompt > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache2-mpm-prefork: > apache2-mpm-prefork depends on apache2 (= 2.4.10-10+deb8u1); however: > Package apache2 is not configured yet. > > dpkg: error processing package apache2-mpm-prefork (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Errors were encountered while processing: > apache2 > apache2-mpm-prefork > ------------------------<snip>------------------------- > > Regards, > > Karl <[email protected]> > Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." > -- Robert A. Heinlein Cheers. -- Manuel A. 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