[Debconf-devel] Bug#478207: Bug#478207: debconf: Use of uninitialized value in join or string

Joey Hess joeyh at debian.org
Mon Apr 28 17:30:04 UTC 2008


Frans Pop wrote:
> During a test installation using D-I, I noticed the following error in the 
> installation syslog:
>    Use of uninitialized value in join or string
>    at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN0> line 10.
> 
> This was during base-installer, during the installation of mdadm just after 
> debootstrap has finished. It is probably related to the fact that mdadm 
> asks a debconf question (which RAID devices should be started during boot).

Could you get a log of a DEBCONF_DEBUG=. run?

If I were able to reproduce this, I'd probably add this debug code to
the front of _change in Stack.pm, to get a call trace:

sub _change {
	use Carp;
	Carp::cluck("_change called");

-- 
see shy jo
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