Bug#748427: menu during package config defeats this user
On 5/17/14, Axel Beckert wrote: > Lou Poppler wrote: >> Near the end of the install process I got a screen with a text menu which >> claimed to be "Configuring science-config" > > That's not aptitude asking you, but debconf. Reassigning accordingly. Thanks, this clue led me to "man debconf" and to "man whiptail" which was enough for me to run "dpkg-reconfigure science-config" and successfully navigate the user-interaction screens. For the debconf maintainers, I still suggest it would be nice to have some little syntax hint displayed in the dialogues, when a new user might not even know what program [s]he is dealing with. -- "Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat" -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#748427: [Aptitude-devel] Bug#748427: menu during package config defeats this user
Control: reassign -1 debconf 1.5.49 Hi, Lou Poppler wrote: > I used interactive aptitude to install several choices from within task > debian-science. > Near the end of the install process I got a screen with a text menu which > claimed to be "Configuring science-config" That's not aptitude asking you, but debconf. Reassigning accordingly. Full quote for the debconf maintainers: > and instructing me: "Please select, among the whole system user list, users > who should get a Debian Science user menu." > with a text-mode list of users with apparently text-mode check boxes by > each username, and choices and > at the bottom of the screen. > > Unfortunately there was no hint about what keys or what input might affect > the check boxes or might navigate to the OK and Cancel > buttons. I wanted to select both users, and the cursor seemed to be inside > the first check-box, so I guessed that maybe the enter > key might select that check box. This was a bad choice, because it exited > me from the menu, apparently without selecting any user. > > After looking at man files, and help documentation, I still have no idea > what I should have done. > I also have no idea how to revisit this choice and select some usernames. > > I file this bug, because I think it would be nice to have some hint on the > text-mode menu screen, > like maybe "[X selects/unselects]" "[TAB moves to next option]" ["ENTER > means exit"] > or _whatever_ the actual inputs are that I should use with this menu screen. > Or even some text explaining where to look to find out how it works. > > If this text-mode screen comes from some other program invoked by aptitude, > I would appreciate even learning that information. P.S.: From the version of aptitude, I'm guessing, you are using Debian Wheezy. Hence reassigning to the version of debconf in Debian Wheezy. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert , http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `-| 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#748427: menu during package config defeats this user
Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2 I used interactive aptitude to install several choices from within task debian-science. Near the end of the install process I got a screen with a text menu which claimed to be "Configuring science-config" and instructing me: "Please select, among the whole system user list, users who should get a Debian Science user menu." with a text-mode list of users with apparently text-mode check boxes by each username, and choices and at the bottom of the screen. Unfortunately there was no hint about what keys or what input might affect the check boxes or might navigate to the OK and Cancel buttons. I wanted to select both users, and the cursor seemed to be inside the first check-box, so I guessed that maybe the enter key might select that check box. This was a bad choice, because it exited me from the menu, apparently without selecting any user. After looking at man files, and help documentation, I still have no idea what I should have done. I also have no idea how to revisit this choice and select some usernames. I file this bug, because I think it would be nice to have some hint on the text-mode menu screen, like maybe "[X selects/unselects]" "[TAB moves to next option]" ["ENTER means exit"] or _whatever_ the actual inputs are that I should use with this menu screen. Or even some text explaining where to look to find out how it works. If this text-mode screen comes from some other program invoked by aptitude, I would appreciate even learning that information.
