On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 06:07:13PM -0000, Steve Langasek wrote: > I quite agree, and I understand there's meant to be code already here > to do that, which seems to be failing.
The current code for this in update-manager checks if DEBIAN_FRONTEND is set to "gnome" without libgtk2-perl installed at the start of the upgrade, and in that case it sets the frontend to "dialog" and expands the terminal widget. However, what's happening here is that libgtk2-perl gets temporarily deconfigured or removed during the upgrade, probably due to a major Perl transition. There's no code in update-manager to handle that case; it would have to keep an eye on the terminal to notice attempts to read from it, and expand the terminal widget then. (Didn't synaptic or something use to do this, once upon a time?) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/979661 Title: oneiric to precise: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome and falls back to Dialog To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/979661/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
