Hi guys, I've got an automatic install (PXE, preseed) working nicely on sarge, however I need to use a later kernel (network card and SATA controller).
So I've used Kenshi Muto's excellent backports and things are _mostly_ working. However in the preseed/late-command section I install some extra packages and this is hanging/failing handling the debconf commands in postinsts (and anywhere else). Typically I'm seeing messages like this: "/tmp/ssh.config.307932: line 42: 3: Bad file descriptor" I've tried various things: a) upgrading debconf (to 1.4.72, then 1.5.0) b) setting LANG to C, en_GB.UTF-8 (bug 355251 - fixed in debconf 1.5.0) c) DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive d) removing /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf e) removing a high level redirect I had (to save the output of the scripts) I thought I'd ask the experts instead of stabbing around in the dark. This used to work okay, but used to be a base-config/late_command (which doesn't exist anymore). I can reproduce this at the command line by waiting for the hang, then killing off the "sh /tmp/ssh.config.307932 configure" command (my script then does a sleep so I can debug the failure). If I then set both DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND=1 and DEBCONF_REDIR=1 then I see the same behaviour. If I unset both, ssh installs fine. I realise it won't be inheriting the parent FDs, but hopefully it's a useful clue. Many thanks, Adrian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
