severity 604224 important thanks On 28/11/10 at 13:05 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > tag 604224 + unreproducible > thanks > > On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:58:10 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > While testing the installation of all packages in unstable, I ran > > into the following problem: > > I can reproduce your other fails-to-install bug reports in my > cowbuilder chroot but not this one. > > The package installs just fine for me. > > I found an interesting line in the log: > > > > Setting up pike7.8-core (7.8.352-dfsg-3) ... > > > update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/pike7.8 to provide /usr/bin/pike > > > (pike) in auto mode. > > > Alarm clock > > > dpkg: error processing pike7.8-core (--configure): > > > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status > > > 142 > > I've never seen this "Alarm clock" - any idea where this is coming > from? > > (The rest are errors following from the first one, I guess.)
I could be an error message spewed by a command called in postinst. pike7.8-core's postinst calls update-alternatives and $PIKEBIN, which is pike7.8. However, a grep on their source code doesn't show any "Alarm clock"... One of the TODO items for instest is to use dpkg hooks to auto-change /bin/sh to /bin/sh -x, which would make it easier to understand the issue... Since I could not reproduce the failure, I'm lowering the severity. However, it's probably something to investigate at some point, or at least to keep open so that, if it happens again, we know it's not the first time. - Lucas
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