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Subject: xlibs postinst failes
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Package: xlibs
Version: 4.2.1-6
Severity: important
Tags: sid
I already filed a bugreport against dpkg, but maybe you could find the
reason for the segfault, as xlibs is the only package where i found the
following behaviour:
Installing xlibs via dpkg doesn't lead to success, as many files are
missing after "successful" installation, i suspect that postinst fails
silently, because if i install xlibs passing -D2 to dpkg (and only if i
pass -D2), dpkg tells me that postinst segfaults.
using strace dpkg -i xlibs... (without -D2) reveals:
[...]
stat64("/var/lib/dpkg/info/xlibs.postinst", {st_mode=3DS_IFREG|0755,
st_size=3D7196, ...}) =3D 0
fork() =3D 13629
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) =3D 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) =3D 0
wait4(13629, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) =3D=3D 0], 0, NULL) =3D 1362=
9
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
[...]
It appears xlibs.postinst exists before it performs anything.
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ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared librar=
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Subject: dpkg correctly does not reinstall conffiles if they are missing.
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The missing files that are not reinstalled by dpkg are infact conffiles.
If you remove conffiles dpkg will *not* restore them, since the very act
of conffiles being missing may mean something to the package. Also,
since the same version of the package is being resintalled there is no
reason to prompt the user to install *new* conffiles.
The package must be purged before reinstallation before the conffiles
can reappear.
The alternate problem is that dpkg crashes with debug level 2, or -D2 on
the command line. A single bug report should not contain two issues. I
urge the bug submitters to create *another* bug report if they can still
crash dpkg using -D2. Do not confuse the issue of crashing and policy
violation.
I consider both 189552 and 189555 not to be bugs. I am issuing a 'done'
of both these bugs. If you have a counter argument to the process of
conffile handling then please create a bug just for that.
Cheers,
Carlos.
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