[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#864875: Bug#864875: debconf: frontend exits with status 10 after last upgrade when /var/cache is tmpfs

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 07:28:12PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 09:08:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 08:58:29PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > > I'm a bit surprised by #247134. Doesn't the "debconf is not a registry"
> > > mantra imply that all data in /var/cache/debconf should be possible to
> > > regenerate from config files in /etc/ and the like?
> > 
> > Well, that's the noble intent, but (even aside from debconf not quite
> > recreating the bits it needs for itself) I'm not aware that anyone tests
> > it and it's probably never been true in reality.
> 
> Heh, I guess I've just revealed how gullible I really am.
> Thanks for the reality check.

So drawing the discussion back to the original problem it seems that the
only immediate advice we can offer to Franz is: in practice, running
with /var/cache on tmpfs is not supported, and we recommend you don't
do that. Sorry :(

Dominic.