On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:17:44AM +1100, Chris McCowage wrote: > On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 05:01 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:53:34PM +1100, Chris McCowage wrote: > > > > > nimbus:/home/cmc# ps aux | grep 6163 > > > root 6163 0.0 0.8 10792 8772 pts/0 S+ 15:03 0:00 > > > /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend ./show-menu 0 new > > > root 6616 0.0 0.0 1924 600 pts/1 R+ 15:30 0:00 grep > > > 6163 > > > > Er... you have to finish the initial configuration of the system on tty1 > > before you can fire up apt-get and expect debconf-using packages to install > > cleanly. If there's any bug here, it would have to be a base-config bug or > > a debconf bug at least, not an apt bug.
> Steve, > thanks for the prompt reply. > Clarification. Original installation off etch beta 1 bin -1 CD succeeded > through to a gnome desktop. However I wanted to install further > packages, and next day I downloaded bin-2 and then ran base-config. I > checked print server and manual package selection. Installation failed > saying that a package was not available and I have ended up in this > state. I had added an ftp site to the sources. Ah, I overlooked that this show-menu process is running on pts/0, not on tty0. The problem is still that base-config is running, and therefore nothing else can access the debconf database. Are you trying to install packages *using* base-config, and getting this error as a result? Or are you running base-config and apt-get in two separate terminals? In any case, base-config is really designed for one-time use at initial installation; whatever you're trying to do with base-config from inside GNOME is probably better done some other way. You might want to post to debian-user if you need help with this. > Is there anything that I can do short of a complete re-install? > What package owns the perl script frontend? > How can I stop frontend running and reappearing? By exiting base-config. > I only started to run apt & dpkg because I had the failure and was at > least trying to see the error messages. > Is the problem base-config? Is base-config debconf and does it own > frontend? Yes. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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