[Debconf-devel] Bug#575070: Exclusive read-write lock in file db driver breaks running debconf as non-root
Sebastian Heinlein
devel at glatzor.de
Tue Mar 23 09:36:57 UTC 2010
Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.29
Severity: normal
Hello,
In aptdaemon we use debconf-communicate running in the user session and
the passthrough backend for the actual installation to show the debconf
questions to the user.
With the new required read write lock on the file backends (which are
the default) debconf-communicate refuses to run as non-root and so
breaks debconf handling in aptdaemon.
Furthermore it is no longer possible to test config scripts as non-root
with using DEBCONF_DEB_REPLACE which I did before.
Cheers,
Sebastian
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii debconf-i18n 1.5.29 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:
ii debconf-doc 1.5.29 debconf documentation
ii debconf-utils 1.5.29 debconf utilities
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
ii libnet-ldap-perl 1:0.39-1 client interface to LDAP servers
pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none> (no description available)
ii perl 5.10.1-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii whiptail 0.52.10-8 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
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