Package: sympa
Version: 5.3.4-2
Severity: normal
Trying to upgrade on a system, I received the following error :
dpkg: error processing sympa (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
Errors were encountered while processing:
sympa
Press return to continue.
I added some debug in postinst by having set -x, and noticed it fails with :
+ db_get sympa/language
+ _db_cmd 'GET sympa/language'
+ IFS=' '
+ printf '%s\n' 'GET sympa/language'
+ IFS='
'
+ read -r _db_internal_line
+ RET='20 Unsupported command "adding" (full line was "Adding system user:
sympa.") received from confmodule.'
+ case ${_db_internal_line%%[ ]*} in
+ return 20
This looks like the echo command is parsed by debconf...
A workaround is to apply the following patch... but that's weird :/
--- /var/lib/dpkg/info/sympa.postinst.orig 2008-03-24 20:07:03.000000000
+0100
+++ /var/lib/dpkg/info/sympa.postinst 2008-03-24 20:07:12.000000000 +0100
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# creating sympa user if he isn't already there
if ! id sympa >/dev/null 2>/dev/null ; then
- echo "Adding system user: sympa."
+ #echo "Adding system user: sympa."
adduser --system --group --gecos "Sympa mailing list manager"
--no-create-home --home /var/lib/sympa sympa >/dev/null
fi
Dunno if something changed in the way debconf interaction must be done, or
echoing during postinst/configure is now forbidden ?
Hope this helps
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages sympa depends on:
ii adduser 3.106 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.20 Debian configuration management sy
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-2 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.18-1 Module for manipulation of ZIP arc
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcgi-fast-perl 5.8.8-12 CGI::Fast Perl module
ii libcrypt-ciphersaber-perl 0.61-4 Perl module implementing CipherSab
ii libdbd-mysql-perl 4.006-1 A Perl5 database interface to the
ii libdbi-perl 1.602-1 Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu
ii libintl-perl 1.16-4 Uniforum message translations syst
ii libio-stringy-perl 2.110-3 Perl5 modules for IO from scalars
ii libmailtools-perl 2.02-1 Manipulate email in perl programs
ii libmd5-perl 2.03-1 backwards-compatible wrapper for D
ii libmime-charset-perl 0.044-2 Charset Informations for MIME
ii libmime-encwords-perl 0.040-3 deal with RFC-1522 encoded words
ii libmime-perl 5.425-2 transitional dummy package
ii libmime-tools-perl [libmime-p 5.425-2 Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
ii libmsgcat-perl 1.03-4 Locale::Msgcat perl module
ii libnet-ldap-perl 1:0.34-1 A Client interface to LDAP servers
ii libtemplate-perl 2.19-1 template processing system written
ii libxml-libxml-perl 1.66-1 Perl module for using the GNOME li
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii mhonarc 2.6.16-1 Mail to HTML converter
ii perl [libmime-base64-perl] 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-suid 5.8.8-12 Runs setuid Perl scripts
ii syslog-ng [system-log-daemon] 2.0.8~1-1 Next generation logging daemon
Versions of packages sympa recommends:
ii doc-base 0.8.10 utilities to manage online documen
ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility
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