Re: renewing broken debconf database?

2006-05-15 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 21:21 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Drew Parsons wrote: > > Name: xprint-common > > Template: xprint-common/default_printer_resolution > > Owners: xprint-common > > > > and /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat has > > > > Name: xprint-common/default_printer_resoluti

Re: renewing broken debconf database?

2006-05-15 Thread Joey Hess
Drew Parsons wrote: > Name: xprint-common > Template: xprint-common/default_printer_resolution > Owners: xprint-common > > and /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat has > > Name: xprint-common/default_printer_resolution > Default: 600 > Description: Default printer

Re: renewing broken debconf database?

2006-05-15 Thread Drew Parsons
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 10:46 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Drew Parsons wrote: > > Thanks for the tip. > > > > It didn't help, however. The "debconf/entry doesn't exist" problems are > > still there afterwards. Were there any extra parameters I ought to > > supply to fix_db.pl? > > > > What did help

Re: renewing broken debconf database?

2006-05-15 Thread Joey Hess
Drew Parsons wrote: > Thanks for the tip. > > It didn't help, however. The "debconf/entry doesn't exist" problems are > still there afterwards. Were there any extra parameters I ought to > supply to fix_db.pl? > > What did help was to manually delete all entries for a given package > from /var/c

Re: renewing broken debconf database?

2006-05-14 Thread Drew Parsons
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 22:20 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Drew Parsons wrote: > > I haven't filed a bug against debconf yet since I'm not certain it is a bug > > in debconf. I hope you can provide useful clues. > > Just run /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl Thanks for the tip. It didn't help, however. T

Re: renewing broken debconf database?

2006-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Drew Parsons wrote: > I haven't filed a bug against debconf yet since I'm not certain it is a bug > in debconf. I hope you can provide useful clues. Just run /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

renewing broken debconf database?

2006-05-14 Thread Drew Parsons
I had a system crash which hosed some files in /var. I've been trying to reapply "apt-get upgrade" to restore the record of what's installed where. Unfortunately debconf is not cooperating. It seems to be unable to re-ask its questions in order to restore the ones which got lost during the crash.