Bug#808464: suddenly being asked for interactive keyboard configuration
package: debconf,keyboard-configuration severity: serious x-debbugs-cc: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Hi, first of all: I'm at lost where this really comes from, as this happened the first time on December 16th (and since then I saw and aborted it daily) and neither debconf nor keyboard-configuration have been uploaded since them. I see this in two jenkins jobs which have been unchanged since months: https://jenkins.debian.net/view/reproducible/job/reproducible_setup_schroot_unstable_diffoscope_amd64_jenkins https://jenkins.debian.net/view/reproducible/job/reproducible_setup_schroot_unstable_diffoscope_amd64_profitbricks3/ Which do "apt-get install -y --install-recommends diffoscope" in sid, which now fails like this: ... Setting up keyboard-configuration (1.134) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Configuring keyboard-configuration -- Please select the layout matching the keyboard for this machine. 1. English (US) 2. English (US) - Cherokee 3. English (US) - English (Colemak) 4. English (US) - English (Dvorak alternative international no dead keys) 5. English (US) - English (Dvorak) 6. English (US) - English (Dvorak, international with dead keys) 7. English (US) - English (Macintosh) 8. English (US) - English (US, alternative international) 9. English (US) - English (US, international with dead keys) 10. English (US) - English (US, with euro on 5) 11. English (US) - English (Workman) 12. English (US) - English (Workman, international with dead keys) 13. English (US) - English (classic Dvorak) 14. English (US) - English (international AltGr dead keys) 15. English (US) - English (left handed Dvorak) 16. English (US) - English (programmer Dvorak) 17. English (US) - English (right handed Dvorak) 18. English (US) - English (the divide/multiply keys toggle the layout) 19. English (US) - Russian (US, phonetic) 20. English (US) - Serbo-Croatian (US) 21. Other and then it hangs forever. We discussed this on #debian-qa: so why do we see this in sid now: https://jenkins.debian.net/view/reproducible/job/reproducible_setup_schroot_unstable_diffoscope_amd64_profitbricks3/71/console (scroll down) could be something to do with some of the debconf frontends being uninstallable but I can't really see why that would make it interactive is it using DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive ? ntyni: yes. the jenkins code used here hasnt changed at all. h01ger: I'm guessing DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive never took effect for some reason and the Dialog frontend is now falling back to a different frontend (Readline) that tries harder to ask its questions even without a real terminal/stdin hm h01ger: I wouldn't expect those messages about Dialog and Readline frontends at all if DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive was in effect * h01ger nods h01ger: but I'm not 100% positive on that https://jenkins.debian.net/job/reproducible_setup_schroot_unstable_diffoscope_amd64_jenkins/lastBuild/console weirly enough has a different frontend it seems any ideas anyone? cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Bug#808464: suddenly being asked for interactive keyboard configuration
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:27:11 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > Which do "apt-get install -y --install-recommends diffoscope" in sid, which > now fails like this: > > ... > Setting up keyboard-configuration (1.134) ... > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog > debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell > buffer, or without a controlling terminal.) > debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline > Configuring keyboard-configuration > -- [..] > is it using DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive ? > ntyni: yes. the jenkins code used here hasnt changed at all. > h01ger: I'm guessing DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive never took effect > for some reason and the Dialog frontend is now falling back to a different > frontend (Readline) that tries harder to ask its questions even without a > real > terminal/stdin > hm > h01ger: I wouldn't expect those messages about Dialog and Readline > frontends at all if DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive was in effect > * h01ger nods > h01ger: but I'm not 100% positive on that > > https://jenkins.debian.net/job/reproducible_setup_schroot_unstable_diffoscope_amd64_jenkins/lastBuild/console > > weirly enough has a different frontend it seems Quick test: - cowbuilder sid amd64 chroot - a) DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive, b) unset DEBIAN_FRONTEND - apt-get install -y --install-recommends diffoscope In case a) I get no questions, as expected; in case b) I also get Setting up keyboard-configuration (1.134) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 76.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Configuring keyboard-configuration -- This looks like DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive is working as expected; which doesn't answer what's happening in your jenkins/reproduucible job :/ Hm, a tiny difference is "Dialog frontend will not work" vs. "No usable dialog-like program is installed". But still, the whole question should be skipped with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Leonard Cohen: Nancy signature.asc Description: Digital Signature
