reassign 252425 man-db tags 252425 - sid thanks On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 07:54:14PM +1000, Peter Lieverdink wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: important > Tags: sid > > This report pertains to the beta4 and tc1 versions of the > debian-installer as run on a ppc. > > The 'dpkg --configure man-db' step fails in the installation, which > causes the 'Install base system' step to fail. My work-around was to use > console #2 and insert 'exit 0' at the top of > /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst in between the package being > extracted and the configuration being run. Making the postinst script > not run causes installation to complete successfully.
I've heard reports like this before, but I've never been able to reproduce it myself (I'm the man-db maintainer and work on powerpc d-i). Are you short of disk space in /target or anything like that? Could you repeat the installation, and instead of the workaround you describe above insert 'set -x' at the top of /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst? That should output a complete trace to syslog, I think, and I'd like to see that. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
