reassign 360752 debconf
severity 360752 important
tags 360752 + sid unreproducible
retitle 360752 database corruption - fontconfig purge fails
merge 360752 282587
thanks

Le mardi 04 avril 2006 à 15:39 -0400, Joey Hess a écrit :
> Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le mardi 04 avril 2006 à 08:16 -0500, JP Sugarbroad a écrit :
> > > Package: fontconfig-config
> > > Version: 2.3.2-5.1
> > > Severity: serious
> > > 
> > > Package prerm/postrm should never fail:
> > > 
> > > Purging configuration files for fontconfig-config ...
> > > Can't call method "description" on an undefined value at
> > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 93, <GEN0> line 1.
> > > dpkg: error processing fontconfig-config (--purge):
> > >  subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 9
> > 
> > This script snippet is automatically generated by dh_installdebconf.
> > 
> > Joey, do you have an idea of what could be causing such an error?
> 
> Yes, this is type 1 debconf database corruption. There's a lot of
> examples of it in the bug reports for debconf, although no definitive
> way to reproduce it. There's also a /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl that
> can be run to clean up a system that has it.

Thanks a lot for the explanations. I'm reassigning the bug.

For the record, the templates were recently moved from fontconfig to
fontconfig-config. This may be part of the cause for that corruption.

Regards,
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