On 2013-10-24 02:32, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 04:57:44PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> debconf-get-selections | grep nvidia >> debconf-show nvidia-support > > Neither shows any output.
reinstall nvidia-support to restore the debconf cache >> PS: did you somehow mess up your debconf database in the past? > > Merely its cache, by a wholesale deletion of /var/cache/, as allowed by the > Policy in a "must" clause. I did not mess with debconf in any other way > (nor even specifically targetted it). that's probably the reason for the missing templates thanks for giving me a hint how to reproduce this now I need to to improve my debconf knowledge to reregister the templates if they are missing - since the templates are owned by a different package than the one being configured this may be a bit tricky (otherwise this should have worked out of the box) but may take some time until I can look into this further Andreas PS: we should do some archive wide tests messing with the debconf cache :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
