On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 06:35:04PM +0000, Jools Smyth wrote: > I have a problem with courier base. The package maintainer has pointed the > error to most likely a problem with my debconf toolchain, possibly specific > to hppa.
preinstall script also "returns an error": [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get install courier-base Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: courier-base 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 167kB of archives. After unpacking 545kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://mirrors.kernel.org testing/main courier-base 0.42.2-10 [167kB] Fetched 167kB in 0s (1137kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... courier-base failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1 Selecting previously deselected package courier-base. (Reading database ... 70682 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking courier-base (from .../courier-base_0.42.2-10_hppa.deb) ... Setting up courier-base (0.42.2-10) ... dpkg: error processing courier-base (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: courier-base E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# The courier-base.preinst and .postinst scripts don't provide an "exit 0" at the end. Could they be picking up garbage for a return value? Or do shell scripts implicitly set a Zero return value if none is specified? grundler <532>ls -l /usr/src/courier-0.42.2/debian/courier-base.templates /var/lib/dpkg/info/courier-base.templates -rw-r--r-- 1 grundler root 1154 Jan 16 11:22 /usr/src/courier-0.42.2/debian/courier-base.templates -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 6 15:46 /var/lib/dpkg/info/courier-base.templates Looks like the maintainer's guess is correct. Either it's not packaged correctly or something is stomping on it during the install. grant
