Bug#605572: postinstall script hangs

Sven Joachim svenjoac at gmx.de
Wed Dec 1 12:09:44 UTC 2010


On 2010-12-01 12:28 +0100, Michal Čihař wrote:

> Package: gconf2
> Version: 2.28.1-6
> Severity: important
>
> Hi
>
> I can reproduce this in headless pbuilder environment (started from
> cron), but it seems to work fine when pbuilder (and thus gconf2
> postinstall) runs in terminal.
>
> The postinstall script hangs at executing:
>
>     /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/gconf-schemas --register-all --no-signal
>
> The process seems to be reading some file descriptor, strace only
> repeats:
>
>     read(5, "", 16)                         = 0
>     read(5, "", 16)                         = 0
>     read(5, "", 16)                         = 0
>
> The standard output/error does not show any problems:
>
>     Setting up gconf2 (2.28.1-6) ...
>     update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/gconftool-2 to provide /usr/bin/gconftool (gconftool) in auto mode.
>
> I have no idea what else might be needed to debug this, but I'll try to
> provide any required information.

Maybe your pbuilder installation is hosed because of bug #602184?  I had
also seen gconf2 hang in such a situation, but IIRC the problem
disappeared when I restored pbuilder's /dev directory from a backup.

Regards,
        Sven






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