Re: Help with debconf

From: Alex Gonzalez <langabe(at)gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jan 17 2008 - 07:02:00 EST

Hi,
Thanks for that. I actually forgot to include the postrm file to do the purge, so that should fix it.

Another problem I have is that whiptail doesn't seem to display the configuration dialog. I have the follwing processes,

 4838 pts/0 S+ 0:00 sh -c { apt-get update;apt-get --allow-unauthenticated install pvrfs; } 2>&1

 4842 pts/0    S+     0:00 apt-get --allow-unauthenticated install pvrfs
 4846 pts/0    S+     0:00 /bin/sh -c /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true
 4847 pts/0    S+     0:01 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
 4854 pts/0    Z+     0:00 [dpkg-preconfigu] 
 4857 pts/0    S+     0:00 /bin/sh -e /tmp/pvrfs.config.48551 configure
 4859 pts/0    S+     0:00 whiptail --backtitle Package configuration

--title Configuring pvrfs --output-fd 12 --nocancel --default-item /dev/hda2 --menu Choose a hard drive partition to perform the filesystem upgrade on.??WARNING! ALL DATA IN THE CHOSEN PARTITION WILL BE LOST??Choose partition to upgrade on: 16 72 4 -- /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 /dev/hda4
 4867 pts/1 S+ 0:00 whiptail --backtitle Package configuration --title Configuring pvrfs --nocancel --default-item /dev/hda2 --menu Choose a hard drive partition to perform the filesyst?em upgrade on.??WARNING! ALL DATA IN THE CHOSEN PARTITION WILL BE LOST??Choose partition to upgrade on: 16 72 4 -- /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 /dev/hda4

>From the two whiptails, the first one failed to bring up a dialog, and
the second one was run manually by me and did bring the dialog. The only difference is that the second one has no --output-fd.

My guess is that there is a problem with file descriptor 12, how can I find out what is this descriptor supposed to be?

Thanks,
Alex

On Jan 16, 2008 5:15 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:50:42PM +0000, Alex Gonzalez wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to force debconf to forget about a package
> > configuration on removal, or to always ask the configuration questions
> > on install?
>
> I'm sure there is a way to do the second, and there is a debconf-doc package
> you should probably look into.
>
> >
> > I have this packet that is configured the first time it's installed,
> > but then never asks again if you don't dpkg-reconfigure it.
> >
> > However, if I remove the package, then debconf still remembers the
> > configuration and I can't change it with dpkg-reconfigure (package is
> > not installed error). Because of the specifics of the package I won't
> > be able to reinstall it without changing the configuration.
>
> try purging the package first. That will remove all the configuration
> files.
>
> either
>
> aptitude purge <package>
>
> or
>
> dpkg -p <package>
>
> should to do the trick.
>
> A
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Received on Thu Jan 17 07:02:34 2008