[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#864875: Bug#864875: request-tracker4: frontend exists with status 10 after last upgrade

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 04:38:53PM +0100, Franz Georg Köhler wrote:
> Here is the requested output. /var/cache is on tmpfs on this machine and
> gets deleted on every reboot. Maybe this is related to the problem?
> 
> root at orion:~# cp /var/cache/debconf/config.dat /tmp
> 
> root at orion:~# /var/lib/dpkg/info/request-tracker4.config
> + set -e
> + RTVER=4
> + RT=request-tracker4
> + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
> + [ !  ]
> + PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1
> + export PERL_DL_NONLAZY
> + [  ]
> + exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/request-tracker4.config
> debconf (db): making DbDriver of type File
> debconf (db config): started; filename is /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
> debconf (db config): loading database
> debconf (db): making DbDriver of type File
> debconf (db passwords): started; filename is
> /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat
> 
> [...]
> + IFS=
>  read -r _db_internal_line
> debconf (developer): <-- CAPB backup
> debconf (developer): --> 0 multiselect escape backup
> + RET=multiselect escape backup
> + return 0
> + [  != configure ]
> + [  != reconfigure ]
> + return 0
> + db_get request-tracker4/dbconfig-install
> + _db_cmd GET request-tracker4/dbconfig-install
> + _db_internal_IFS= 	
> 
> + IFS=
> + printf %s\n GET request-tracker4/dbconfig-install
> debconf (developer): <-- GET request-tracker4/dbconfig-install
> debconf (developer): --> 10 request-tracker4/dbconfig-install doesn't exist
> + IFS= 	
> 
> + IFS=
>  read -r _db_internal_line
> + RET=10 request-tracker4/dbconfig-install doesn't exist
> + return 10
> debconf (db config): saving database
> debconf (db passwords): no database changes, not saving
> debconf (db templatedb): saving database
> root at orion:~# echo $?
> 10
> 
> root at orion:~# diff -u /tmp/config.dat /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
> root at orion:~# md5sum /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
> 5582bfe5c3a834733a8c39f5e0320fde  /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
> root at orion:~# md5sum /tmp/config.dat
> 5582bfe5c3a834733a8c39f5e0320fde  /tmp/config.dat

Hi,

Apologies for the delay in responding. I recall testing this
at the time and not being able to reproduce - however perhaps you could
let us know whether changing /var/cache to not be a tmpfs makes a
difference? If so, I would think that would be a bug either in
debconf or dbconfig-common.

Thanks,
Dominic.