On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:04:25PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Mark Brown] > > You need to explicitly end Debconf processing in the postinst by > > calling db_stop. debconf causes child processes to have an extra > > file descriptor open and waits for these to be closed before exiting > > and the daemon doesn't know it has this file open so doesn't close > > it. > > Is this the case for all postinst scripts? db_stop is not mentioned > in my /usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/tutorial.html, which I use as my > debconf reference.
See the "Troubleshooting" section. The debconf documentation often doesn't use the db_ prefix when discussing commands, since that's only used by the shell confmodule and not the Perl confmodule. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
