Hello,
unfortunately I am unable to reproduce this bug.
When I try to install a broken package I get the following output in
xterm:
Please enter root password
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you
have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the
unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been
created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
packagesearch: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.7 but it is not
installable
Depends: libept0 (>= 0.5.26+b1) but 0.5.26 is
to be installed
E: Broken packages
Execution failed.
Press enter to close the terminal emulator
And xterm waits until I hit return. When an apt-get update fails (e.g.
becauses there is no network connection), xterm also waits for return.
Which errors cause your xterm to close immediately?
What happens for you, if you run apt-get update without a network
connection, does xterm close silently there, too?
Best regards
Ben
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 03:45 -0400, ibgb wrote:
> Package: packagesearch
> Version: 2.4+b1
> Severity: normal
>
> Using xterm for x-terminal-emulator, and apt-get as the Package
> Administration Tool.
> When a package install fails, the xterm window closes before the error can be
> read and no error message
> is passed to the user. The same behavior occurs on an apt-get update error.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-0.slh.2-sidux-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages packagesearch depends on:
> ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.21 Advanced front-end for dpkg
> ii debtags 1.7.9+b1 Enables support for package tags
> ii libc6 2.9-23 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii libept0 0.5.26+b1 High-level library for managing
> De
> ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-1 GCC support library
> ii libqt4-xml 4:4.5.2-1 Qt 4 XML module
> ii libqtcore4 4:4.5.2-1 Qt 4 core module
> ii libqtgui4 4:4.5.2-1 Qt 4 GUI module
> ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii libxapian15 1.0.13-3 Search engine library
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-14 compression library - runtime
>
> Versions of packages packagesearch recommends:
> ii apt-file 2.2.2 search for files within Debian
> pac
> ii aterm [x-terminal-emulator] 1.0.1-7 Afterstep XVT - a VT102 emulator
> f
> ii deborphan 1.7.28 program that can find unused
> packa
> ii konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:4.2.4-1 X terminal emulator for KDE 4
> ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 243-1 X terminal emulator
>
> packagesearch suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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