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Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 12 Jul 2005 21:28:31 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 12 14:28:31 2005 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from cassarossa.samfundet.no [129.241.93.19] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1DsSIn-0000UA-00; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 14:28:29 -0700 Received: from trofast.ipv6.sesse.net ([2001:700:300:dc03:20e:cff:fe36:a766] helo=trofast.sesse.net) by cassarossa.samfundet.no with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DsSIk-000684-FW for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:28:27 +0200 Received: from sesse by trofast.sesse.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DsSIj-0000TB-00 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:28:25 +0200 Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 23:28:25 +0200 From: "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xserver-xorg: dies in preinst due to debconf bug Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.11.8 on a i686 X-Message-Flag: Outlook? --> http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_PACKAGE autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 X-Spam-Level: Package: xserver-xorg Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-1 Severity: serious After first doing "aptitude install xserver-common" and then "aptitude install xserver-xorg" (just "aptitude dist-upgrade" wanted to remove ~300 packages, including GNOME :-) ), I got: xserver-xorg config warning: migrating xserver-xfree86 templates to xserver-xorg. Can't call method "choices" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 85, <GEN13> line 118. Received signal. Aborting xserver-xorg package config script. Then, it installed some other packages, and tried again, giving essentially the same error: xserver-xorg config warning: migrating xserver-xfree86 templates to xserver-xorg. Can't call method "choices" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 85, <GEN1> line 115. Some manual debugging with DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer revealed: [...] debconf (developer): <-- SET xserver-xorg/autodetect_monitor true debconf (developer): --> 0 value set debconf (developer): <-- FSET xserver-xorg/autodetect_monitor seen true debconf (developer): --> 0 true debconf (developer): <-- METAGET xserver-xfree86/config/display/modes choices Can't call method "choices" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 85, <GEN1> line 115. Now, this does indeed exist in debconf: Name: xserver-xfree86/config/display/modes Template: xserver-xfree86/config/display/modes Value: 800x600, 640x480 Owners: xserver-xfree86 However, there are no choices there, actually... and I can't find anything in the templates, either. I guess the problem is: baby:~/xorg> grep -c config/display/modes /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat 0 So, the template in question is kind of half-there, since it has a _value_ but not a template. Now, debconf shouldn't _die_ on this, and that is probably a bug (I guess I'll kick Joey when I see him later today :-) ), for in the meantime this breaks X.org installation in these cases... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-3-686 Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- no debconf information -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ --------------------------------------- Received: (at 318015-done) by bugs.debian.org; 30 Jul 2005 20:41:24 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jul 30 13:41:24 2005 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 1 (Debian)) id 1Dyy96-0007lN-00; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:41:24 -0700 Received: from squee ([68.160.39.108]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:41:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: by squee (Postfix, from userid 1000) id ABD7B46D4E; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:41:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:41:20 -0400 From: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Closing. Not an Xorg bug. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 This isn't a bug in xorg but rather in debconf and there appears to be no way to work around it from within the xorg scripts. The debconf maintainer says that this problem in debconf is known but is unreproducible, and can be fixed by running /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl. Since this is totally out of the XSF's hands, I'm closing this bug. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]