On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 01:53:45 +0100 Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote: > I guess what was meant was rather > > db_unregister x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users > db_unregister x11-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users
I tested this locally just to see if I could get past the configure failure, and the fix will probably need to go one step further with either "|| :" / "|| true" or an explicit "if ! db_unregister ...; then # do something about it; fi" > $ sudo DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer dpkg --configure x11-commonSetting up > x11-common (1:7.7+17) ... > debconf (developer): frontend started > debconf (developer): frontend running, package name is x11-common > debconf (developer): starting /var/lib/dpkg/info/x11-common.postinst > configure 1:7.7+16 > debconf (developer): <-- UNREGISTER x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users > debconf (developer): --> 10 x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users doesn't exist > dpkg: error processing package x11-common (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10 > Errors were encountered while processing: > x11-common After changing to the following, I was successful in completing the configure of x11-common: > db_unregister x11-common/xwrapper/allowed_users || : > db_unregister x11-common/xwrapper/actual_allowed_users || : ♥, - Tianon 4096R / B42F 6819 007F 00F8 8E36 4FD4 036A 9C25 BF35 7DD4