Package: debconf Version: 1.5.29 Severity: normal Hello,
In aptdaemon we use debconf-communicate running in the user session and the passthrough backend for the actual installation to show the debconf questions to the user. With the new required read write lock on the file backends (which are the default) debconf-communicate refuses to run as non-root and so breaks debconf handling in aptdaemon. Furthermore it is no longer possible to test config scripts as non-root with using DEBCONF_DEB_REPLACE which I did before. Cheers, Sebastian -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debconf depends on: ii debconf-i18n 1.5.29 full internationalization support ii perl-base 5.10.1-11 minimal Perl system Versions of packages debconf recommends: ii apt-utils 0.7.25.3 APT utility programs Versions of packages debconf suggests: ii debconf-doc 1.5.29 debconf documentation ii debconf-utils 1.5.29 debconf utilities ii dialog 1.1-20100119-2 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii gnome-utils 2.28.1-1 GNOME desktop utilities ii libgnome2-perl 1.042-2 Perl interface to the GNOME librar ii libnet-ldap-perl 1:0.39-1 client interface to LDAP servers pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none> (no description available) ii perl 5.10.1-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii whiptail 0.52.10-8 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
