>This is the error that caused the trouble: > >2006-10-29 11:50:32,261 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: >'nfs-kernel-server': 'subprocess >post-installation script returned error exit >status 1 >'
Nope. As the bug title suggests, it was around 2006-10-29 11:17:00,081 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'gnat-gps- doc': 'subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 ' about three quarters of an hour earlier. (From what I've seen elsewhere since, maybe install-info barfed?) The one you found was one place where it lost sync. And what losing sync means ... umm, just what it says. Not "crash" - when I mean crash, I say crash. But you're right about the config file dialog ... or the above-mentioned error popup. In case of the error popup, the install just went on at high speed while I was still staring at the popup; then after I finally made the popup go away (after first starting the browser and beginning this bug report), it then seemed to first notice that a great many messages had gone by already. The second was, IIRC, a config file dialog, that came up rather late so I had already started to try to handle the file via the terminal window; then after I don't exactly remember what sequence of events the popup- terminal I/O obviously went out of sync leading to that error message - the package installed without a hitch later. Which is why I said this seems to be fragile - it's too easy to confuse it. I suspect you're using something like expect to convert the text I/O to the popup? Seems like a bad idea to me. Incidentally, from the bug history you can see that the upgrade finished at about 12:23 CET. So, two problems: the original in gnat-gps-doc, and then the one in the update-manager that caused the problem installing nfs-kernel-server. Congratulations! You reassigned the bug to the only package of the three which doesn't have a problem. -- nfs-kernel-server postinst fails on dapper->edgy upgrade https://launchpad.net/bugs/69019 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
