Control: tag -1 moreinto Re: Nick > On a freshly installed system (an hour or so earlier), my attempt to > install postgresql-11 failed, apparently because postgresql-common > failed to install. It went like so:
> # apt-get install postgresql-11 > Setting up postgresql-common (200+deb10u3) ... > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog > debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell > buffer, or without a controlling terminal.) > debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline > Adding user postgres to group ssl-cert > dpkg: error processing package postgresql-common (--configure): > installed postgresql-common package post-installation script subprocess > returned error exit status 1 Hi Nick, it works on a fresh machine for me, so it is likely some particularity of the system at your end. To see more details, can you put set -x at the beginning of /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql-common.postinst and then try one of these: apt-get install -f or dpkg-reconfigure postgresql-common That should give more detail about where it is dying. Christoph
