[Debconf-devel] Bug#617618: debconf: dpkg-reconfigure -a fails with exit 2. It should report the package causing the failure!
Jan Christoph Uhde
linux at obiwahn.org
Wed Mar 9 23:57:25 UTC 2011
Package: debconf
Version: 1.5.38
Severity: normal
dpkg-reconfigure -a -u
....
** initializing cache. This may take a while **
dpkg-trigger: dpkg-trigger must be called from a maintainer script (or with a --by-package option)
dpkg-reconfigure should report which package causes the failure and
continue with the rest. I was not able using htop and ps auxf to find
out which package was the reason. When --all is used a flag could be
set to make the script a bit more verbose. is simply used
print STDERR "$0: ".sprintf(gettext("now at package %s"), $pkg)."\n";
maybe it is better to make it verbose via a -v or --verbose flag
anyway the user should get some feedback other than the exit status.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii debconf-i18n 1.5.38 full internationalization support
ii perl-base 5.10.1-17 minimal Perl system
Versions of packages debconf recommends:
ii apt-utils 0.8.11.5 APT utility programs
Versions of packages debconf suggests:
pn debconf-doc <none> (no description available)
pn debconf-utils <none> (no description available)
ii dialog 1.1-20100428-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn libgnome2-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libnet-ldap-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libqtcore4-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libqtgui4-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none> (no description available)
ii perl 5.10.1-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii whiptail 0.52.11-2 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
-- debconf information:
debconf-apt-progress/preparing:
debconf-apt-progress/title:
debconf-apt-progress/info:
debconf-apt-progress/media-change:
debconf/frontend: Dialog
debconf/priority: high
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