[Debconf-devel] Bug#573244: uninitialized values logged during d-i install

[Joey Hess]

Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.28
Severity: normal

Seen in my installer syslog:

Mar  9 20:58:30 in-target: Checking for services that may need to be restarted...
Mar  9 20:58:30 in-target: Checking init scripts...
Mar  9 20:58:31 in-target: Use of uninitialized value $template in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 81, <GEN2> line 850.
Mar  9 20:58:31 in-target: Use of uninitialized value $item in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 39, <GEN2> line 850.
Mar  9 20:58:31 in-target: Use of uninitialized value $item in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 39, <GEN2> line 850.
Mar  9 20:59:10 in-target: 
Mar  9 20:59:10 in-target: Restarting services possibly affected by the upgrade:
Mar  9 20:59:10 in-target:   cron: stopping...
Mar  9 20:59:11 in-target: starting...
Mar  9 20:59:11 in-target: done.

This was when pkgsel ran a aptitude upgrade, and libc6 was asking about
restarting daemons, with the question proxied to cdebconf via the passthrough
frontend. (I did see the question.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii  debconf-i18n                  1.5.28     full internationalization support 
ii  perl-base                     5.10.1-11  minimal Perl system

Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii  apt-utils                     0.7.25.3   APT utility programs

Versions of packages debconf suggests:
pn  debconf-doc               <none>         (no description available)
pn  debconf-utils             <none>         (no description available)
ii  dialog                    1.1-20100119-2 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gnome-utils               2.28.1-1       GNOME desktop utilities
ii  libgnome2-perl            1.042-2        Perl interface to the GNOME librar
pn  libnet-ldap-perl          <none>         (no description available)
ii  libterm-readline-gnu-perl 1.19-2         Perl extension for the GNU Readlin
ii  perl                      5.10.1-11      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  whiptail                  0.52.10-5+b1   Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

-- debconf information excluded

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