Bug#921834: exim4-config: Running dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config only shows first screen

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2019-02-09 Günter Frenz <guefz at guefz.de> wrote:
> Hallo

> here is the debug output using dialog-frontend:

I really have no idea why it is not working:

Here it is reading /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and setting
the shell variable dc_eximconfig_configtype ...

> + [ -e /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf ]
> + . /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
> + dc_eximconfig_configtype=smarthost
[...]

and then it successfully stores this value in the debconf database:

> + storevar2db
> + printf %s\n smarthost
> + sed -e s/^[[:blank:]]*// -e s/[[:blank:]]*$//
> + dc_eximconfig_configtype=smarthost
[...]
> + convert_to_long smarthost
> + echo -n mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail
> + db_set exim4/dc_eximconfig_configtype mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail
> + _db_cmd SET exim4/dc_eximconfig_configtype mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail
> + _db_internal_IFS= 

> + IFS= 
> + printf %s\n SET exim4/dc_eximconfig_configtype mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail
> + IFS=

> + read -r _db_internal_line
> + IFS= 

> + RET=value set
> + return 0
[...]

cu Andreas
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