Package: debconf Version: 1.5.22 Severity: normal Every time a package, such as libpam0g, wants to display a list of services to be restarted in an Emacs shell buffer, the list is empty.
>From inside an Emacs shell buffer, I use to run aptitude -r dist-upgrade and I get this: =============== start of screen transcript ===================== Setting up libpam0g (1.0.1-4+b1) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Checking for services that may need to be restarted...Checking init scripts... Configuring libpam0g -------------------- Most services that use PAM need to be restarted to use modules built for this new version of libpam. Please review the following space-separated list of init.d scripts for services to be restarted now, and correct it if needed. Some other services such as xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver, and xlockmore cannot be restarted for you. You will not be able to authenticate to these services until you restart them manually. Services to restart for PAM library upgrade: ============== end of screen transcript ======================== As you can see, the list of services to restart is empty. Howeer, if I run in a terminal the command /var/lib/dpkg/info/libpam0g.postinst configure 0 I get the following list: wu-ftpd samba netatalk gdm exim4 cups cron atd It is not simply a visualisation problem: if I hit Enter at the prompt, no services are restarted. I can reproduce this problem at will. I am knwledgeable with bash, so if I can be of any help, please let me know. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debconf depends on: ii debconf-i18n 1.5.22 full internationalization support ii perl-base 5.10.0-13 minimal Perl system Versions of packages debconf recommends: ii apt-utils 0.7.14+b1 APT utility programs Versions of packages debconf suggests: ii debconf-doc 1.5.22 debconf documentation ii debconf-utils 1.5.22 debconf utilities ii dialog 1.1-20080316-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii gnome-utils 2.20.0.1-2 GNOME desktop utilities ii libgnome2-perl 1.042-1+b1 Perl interface to the GNOME librar pn libnet-ldap-perl <none> (no description available) pn libqt-perl <none> (no description available) pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none> (no description available) ii perl 5.10.0-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii whiptail 0.52.2-11.3 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe -- debconf information: debconf-apt-progress/title: debconf-apt-progress/info: debconf/priority: high debconf-apt-progress/preparing: debconf-apt-progress/media-change: debconf/frontend: Dialog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
