Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.
Josip Rodin wrote: That's an annoying but in a way useful feature of debconf, to intercept all text sent to stdout and try to interpret it as debconf code. I encountered a similar problem with xinetd and after JoeyH explained it to me, fixed it by adding a bunch of 2 to all sorts of commands that would echo something during installation. Actually, the problem in this bug report has nothing to do with that. But I've already sent in a patch to fix it anyway. -- see shy jo
Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.
Hi, man dpkg-reconfigure and read the option --priority Bye Cesar Mendoza http://www.kitiara.org On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote: So how do I reset the debconf priority after having installed the system? I don't see an appropreate config file in /etc. Hi, I got that error and found that there is a problem between debconf and the lynx package. When the debconf priority is set to high, the installation script breaks. Set debconf priority to low, answer the installation questions and everything should be allright. Bye Cesar Mendoza http://www.kitiara.org = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.
Just tried this. Catch 22. It didn't work because the package wasn't fully installed! I tried to purge lynx but it complains that /usr/lib/mine/packages/lynx is a ro file system. I tired to manually delete this file (root has rw permission) but rm complains that it can't unlink the file. Is there a way to set the default priority of debconf back to low? --- Cesar Mendoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, man dpkg-reconfigure and read the option --priority Bye Cesar Mendoza http://www.kitiara.org On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote: So how do I reset the debconf priority after having installed the system? I don't see an appropreate config file in /etc. Hi, I got that error and found that there is a problem between debconf and the lynx package. When the debconf priority is set to high, the installation script breaks. Set debconf priority to low, answer the installation questions and everything should be allright. Bye Cesar Mendoza http://www.kitiara.org = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.
Never mind my previous email... I finally figured out to run dpkg-reconfig on debconfig with --priority=low to reset the priority! But after doing that I STILL get an error installing lynx! Tried to apt-get --reinstall install lynx Same error: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 30. lynx E: Subprocess returned an error code (1) OK I just tried this AGAIN, this time answering the question to ask old question again with YES. Then tried the apt-get reinstall again. This time it worked. Boy what hoops to jump through to fix this broken lynx install! BTW the only lynx question asked was for the homepage. Don't see how that broke the install. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.
Hi, I got that error and found that there is a problem between debconf and the lynx package. When the debconf priority is set to high, the installation script breaks. Set debconf priority to low, answer the installation questions and everything should be allright. Bye Cesar Mendoza http://www.kitiara.org On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Guess I'm a tester. I tried to install Potato via the internet. Downloaded all floppies and installed base, configured networking, and ran dselect (after modifying /etc/apt/apt.conf and /etc/apt/sources.list) Almost every went well...except lynx. .. dpkg error processing lynx subproc post - install script returned error exit status 30 I purged lynx and tried apt-get lynx failed to configure, with exit code 30 I also saw a message that /usr was busy ??? (no disk is NOT full, df shows /user 16%, / 11% OTHER NOTES: Beside's lynx the following was observed. 1: no way to specify DHCP for IP address during network setup portion of install (I can do this all the time with redhat). 2: I wanted to put lilo on the MBR of /dev/hda but the root filesystem is on /dev/hdc1. The install script won't do this by default, I suppose I could have shelled out and re-ran lilo. Instead I booted using the rescue disk and mounted the root partition, then edited lilo.config and reran lilo. I got a warning that this configuration might not work due to the bios (but the bios sees all 4 drives, even though it won't boot any but C:). Anyway changing to /dev/hda for the boot block and keeping the root at /dev/hdc1 works fine. 3. somehow I managed to misstype my root password TWICE!! resulting in not being able to log in as root! Yuck. Had to boot using the rescue disk, mount the root partition, and edit /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Muprhy's Law Tomorrow I'll try configuring X. Probably have something else to report. = Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Net install of potato, problems with lynx.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:04:30PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Guess I'm a tester. debian-testing or debian-boot mailing lists might be more appropriate. Almost every went well...except lynx. .. dpkg error processing lynx subproc post - install script returned error exit status 30 I purged lynx and tried apt-get lynx failed to configure, with exit code 30 This might be related to debconf, if new lynx uses it. That's an annoying but in a way useful feature of debconf, to intercept all text sent to stdout and try to interpret it as debconf code. I encountered a similar problem with xinetd and after JoeyH explained it to me, fixed it by adding a bunch of 2 to all sorts of commands that would echo something during installation. I guess you could try editing your /var/lib/dpkg/info/lynx.postinst to do the same, and then try to `dpkg --configure --pending` it. And of course, file a bug. -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
