Adam Borowski <[email protected]> writes: > If you upgrade a system that started pre-wheezy (I'm not sure what's the > latest starting release needed to reproduce), base-passwd asks the same > question a large number of times -- it wants whether it can change > shells of system users to /usr/sbin/nologin, asking one by one. In the > example below, that's 16 times. A not very attentive user might even > think the upgrade is looping forever!
I thought about this when writing this support, but accumulating all of the questions into one block and making sure the prompting makes sense is rather hard to do right. I checked with Colin on that and we decided to bail. If you have the time to dig in and try to implement that, I think it would be an improvement, but it's a bit of work. > I don't recall ever dist-upgrading between releases non-interactively, > nor ever messing with the shell of any system user. Yes, we have to prompt regardless, since people may be relying on the current shells even if they never changed them. > This problem happened so far on 2 out of 4 systems I just upgraded from > wheezy to jessie (live but less important boxes). The other systems probably just have the Debconf prompt level set to something higher. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
