Bug#519927: same here

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:20:14AM -0400, Aristeu Rozanski wrote: I can confirm this problem. I've set a cron job to update the system everyday and got this from /var/log/apt/term.log: Mmm, then your cronjob is broken. You shouldn't auto-install packages from a cronjob without first

Bug#519927: same here

2009-03-17 Thread Aristeu Rozanski
Mmm, then your cronjob is broken. You shouldn't auto-install packages from a cronjob without first configuring debconf to use the noninteractive frontend for this purpose; you will run into other problems besides this one. fixed, thanks. but ssh doesn't appear to be affected by this, still

Bug#519927: same here

2009-03-16 Thread Aristeu Rozanski
I can confirm this problem. I've set a cron job to update the system everyday and got this from /var/log/apt/term.log: Setting up libpam-runtime (1.0.1-7) ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)