Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-116
Severity: normal
Calling dpkg-reconfigure(8) on the cron package fails because of the
dpkg-maintscript-helper invocation contained within the postinst script. This
is particularly annoying since a `dpkg-reconfigure -a' will abruptly stop
without telling the user it was cron who caused the error.
root@winterfell:~# dpkg-reconfigure cron
Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron.
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (1) of script `cron' overwrites
defaults (empty).
dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: couldn't identify the package
Disabling the call to dpkg-maintscript-helper seems to work around the issue
(until the next package update, that is):
root@winterfell:~# sed -ir 's/^\(dpkg-maintscript-helper\)/#\1/'
/var/lib/dpkg/info/cron.postinst
root@winterfell:~# dpkg-reconfigure cron
Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron failed!
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (1) of script `cron' overwrites
defaults (empty).
Starting periodic command scheduler: cron.
Cheers,
-- W.
-- Package-specific info:
--- EDITOR:
not set
--- usr/bin/editor:
/usr/bin/vim.basic
--- /usr/bin/crontab:
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 30248 Dec 19 00:46 /usr/bin/crontab
--- /var/spool/cron
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 22 2009 /var/spool/cron
--- /var/spool/cron/crontabs
drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Sep 28 2008 /var/spool/cron/crontabs
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 3.4.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.15.8.10 Debian package management system
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libpam-runtime 1.1.2-2 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.1.2-2 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii lsb-base 3.2-27 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages cron recommends:
pn lockfile-progs <none> (no description available)
ii ssmtp [mail-transport-agent] 2.64-4 extremely simple MTA to get mail o
Versions of packages cron suggests:
pn anacron <none> (no description available)
pn checksecurity <none> (no description available)
ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility
Versions of packages cron is related to:
pn libnss-ldap <none> (no description available)
pn libnss-ldapd <none> (no description available)
pn libpam-ldap <none> (no description available)
pn libpam-mount <none> (no description available)
pn nis <none> (no description available)
pn nscd <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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