Hi Robert! Robert Hunter [2005-03-13 1:21 +1300]: > I'm upgrading an unused installation and was suprised to > see the following: > > Setting up postgresql (7.4.7-3) ... > dpkg: error processing postgresql (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 > Errors were encountered while processing: > postgresql > > I can understand that there was a failure of some sort, > but there is no indication (from the output) just what > the problem is. > > In fact, even when I tried to execute the script manually, > I received remarkably little output. > > $ sudo bash -x /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql.postinst configure > + set -e > + set +o noclobber > + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule > ++ '[' '!' '' ']' > ++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql.postinst > configure > $ echo $? > 10
I've never seen this; can you please look which debconf version you have (dpkg -s debconf) and please also try to do $ sudo su # export DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer # bash -x /var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql.postinst configure This should produce debconf debugging output, maybe this reveals the bug. Thanks a lot in advance and have an nice day! Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntulinux.org Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://www.debian.org
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