Package: yiff-server Version: 2.14.5-7 Severity: normal Hi, I can also confirm this, and there are a bunch of users on Ubuntu who are suffering from it: http://launchpad.net/bugs/560703
I think that if a service is known to fail to start for some portion of users, the failure shouldn't abort the installation script, I suggest the attached patch as a workaround. The problem is that yiff won't start if the user already has /dev/dsp open: # yiff --foreground /etc/yiff/yiffrc /dev/dsp: Cannot open for playing. SR -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_ZA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages yiff-server depends on: ii adduser 3.112 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.35 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.11.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii liby2-14 2.14.5-7 Y Sound Server Library yiff-server recommends no packages. yiff-server suggests no packages. -- debconf information: yiff-server/mixer: false
diff -u yiff-2.14.5/debian/rules yiff-2.14.5/debian/rules --- yiff-2.14.5/debian/rules +++ yiff-2.14.5/debian/rules @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ dh_installdebconf dh_installdocs dh_installmenu - dh_installinit + dh_installinit --error-handler=true dh_installman dh_installchangelogs dh_link
