I tried it again: assurancetourix:~> ssh falbala sudo apt install ntp
and this time I got... What's in the previous comment. (I looked for a "preview" button to see if I got the "quoted text" right. Expecting to be able to edit, and not finding the preview, I clicked subit. Now I can't find the "edit" either. Sorry.... ) So.... It seems the bug mostly got fixed in the past 8 years. At least for me it did -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to debconf in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/551637 Title: debconf seems to require a controlling TTY even when no interaction is required Status in debconf package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: debconf Having installed NTP on a very similar workstation I expected no interaction, so I typed: % ssh root@falbala apt-get install ntp Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-2.6.32-16-generic linux-headers-2.6.32-16 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Suggested packages: ntp-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: ntp 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 559kB of archives. After this operation, 1,450kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main ntp 1:4.2.4p8+dfsg-1ubuntu 1 [559kB] debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype dpkg-preconfigure: unable to re-open stdin: Fetched 559kB in 1s (412kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package ntp. (Reading database ... E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault . Of course adding "-t" on the ssh commandline works: assurancetourix:~> ssh -t root@falbala apt-get install ntp Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-2.6.32-16-generic linux-headers-2.6.32-16 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Suggested packages: ntp-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: ntp 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/559kB of archives. After this operation, 1,450kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously deselected package ntp. (Reading database ... 143304 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ntp (from .../ntp_1%3a4.2.4p8+dfsg-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... Setting up ntp (1:4.2.4p8+dfsg-1ubuntu1) ... * Starting NTP server ntpd [ OK ] Connection to falbala closed. --- but I don't think that debconf should complain/fail and cause dpkg to crash if it doesn't need to ask me anything. Ubuntu Lucid. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debconf/+bug/551637/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
