Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-116 Severity: normal Running "dpkg-reconfigure cron" fails in fresh installations of Debian Squeeze 6.0 (amd64), which means also "dpkg-reconfigure --all" fails if the cron package is installed.
Error message: dpkg-maintscript-helper: error: couldn't identify the package I fixed the issue temporarily by commenting out all lines starting with "dpkg-maintscript-helper" from the /var/lib/dpkg/info/cron.* files. -- Package-specific info: --- EDITOR: not set --- usr/bin/editor: /usr/bin/vim.gtk --- /usr/bin/crontab: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root crontab 35040 Dec 19 02:36 /usr/bin/crontab --- /var/spool/cron drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 6 16:29 /var/spool/cron --- /var/spool/cron/crontabs drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 4096 Dec 19 02:36 /var/spool/cron/crontabs -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers squeeze-updates APT policy: (500, 'squeeze-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages cron depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg 1.15.8.10 Debian package management system ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libpam-runtime 1.1.1-6.1 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.1.1-6.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip Versions of packages cron recommends: pn lockfile-progs <none> (no description available) ii postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.7.1-1 High-performance mail transport ag Versions of packages cron suggests: pn anacron <none> (no description available) pn checksecurity <none> (no description available) ii logrotate 3.7.8-6 Log rotation utility Versions of packages cron is related to: pn libnss-ldap <none> (no description available) pn libnss-ldapd <none> (no description available) pn libpam-ldap <none> (no description available) pn libpam-mount <none> (no description available) pn nis <none> (no description available) pn nscd <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
