Package: phpbb3 Version: 3.0.2-1 Severity: normal
I marked phpbb3 for purge (key _) in aptitude in order to uninstall phpbb3 and destroy its databases. Dbconfig-common which was auto-installed together with phpbb3 I also marked for purging. I answered "Yes" to the "Deconfigure with dbconfig-common" question, and "Yes" to "Purge phpbb3 DB". I was then asked a strange question: " -|Configuring phpbb3|- What is the password for the administrative account with which this package should create its MySQL database and user?" Thinking the maintainer probably meant "drop" instead of "create", I provided the phpbb3 database password, leading to an error message (Access denied for [EMAIL PROTECTED]). OK, so I should have given MySQL password for root. I then selected "retry" and the same error message occurred again. Among the choices now were "retry" and "retry (skip questions)", both with the same result: the same error message, and no questions asked, i.e. no chance of supplying the correct password. So I chose "abort" and tried again: no avail. I then reinstalled phpbb3 (and thus dbconfig-common) and tried the whole process again, this time using the correct password. I then got lots of "table already exists" error messages. Finally, reinstalling phpbb3 again, and purging phpbb3 without purging dbconfig-common successfully rid my system of phpbb3. When I tried to reproduce this bug, I could successfully generate the wrong password behaviour described above, but not the "table already exists" behaviour. Best regards, Alexander -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (650, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages phpbb3 depends on: ii apache2 2.2.9-7 Apache HTTP Server metapackage ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.2.9-7 Apache HTTP Server - traditional n ii dbconfig-common 1.8.39 common framework for packaging dat ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy ii libapache2-mod-php5 5.2.6-2+b1 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti ii mysql-client 5.0.51a-12 MySQL database client (metapackage ii mysql-client-5.0 [mysql-clien 5.0.51a-12 MySQL database client binaries ii php5 5.2.6-2 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti ii php5-mysql 5.2.6-2+b1 MySQL module for php5 ii php5-pgsql 5.2.6-2+b1 PostgreSQL module for php5 Versions of packages phpbb3 recommends: ii exim4 4.69-6 metapackage to ease Exim MTA (v4) ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-6 lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon pn php5-gd | php4-gd <none> (no description available) pn php5-imagick | php4-imagick <none> (no description available) Versions of packages phpbb3 suggests: ii mysql-server 5.0.51a-12 MySQL database server (metapackage ii mysql-server-5.0 [mysql-serve 5.0.51a-12 MySQL database server binaries -- debconf information: phpbb3/db/basepath: phpbb3/db/app-user: phpbb3 phpbb3/dbconfig-reinstall: false phpbb3/db/dbname: phpbb3 phpbb3/install-error: abort phpbb3/upgrade-backup: true * phpbb3/dbconfig-install: true phpbb3/mysql/method: unix socket phpbb3/remote/newhost: phpbb3/pgsql/manualconf: phpbb3/dbconfig-remove: phpbb3/internal/reconfiguring: false phpbb3/pgsql/authmethod-user: phpbb3/upgrade-error: abort phpbb3/pgsql/authmethod-admin: ident phpbb3/pgsql/method: unix socket * phpbb3/database-type: mysql phpbb3/mysql/admin-user: root phpbb3/remote/host: * phpbb3/httpd: apache2 phpbb3/remove-error: retry phpbb3/dbconfig-upgrade: true phpbb3/purge: true phpbb3/missing-db-package-error: abort phpbb3/pgsql/changeconf: false phpbb3/internal/skip-preseed: false phpbb3/pgsql/admin-user: postgres phpbb3/remote/port: phpbb3/pgsql/no-empty-passwords: phpbb3/passwords-do-not-match: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
