Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:51:07 -0500
From: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 07:32:31PM +0200, Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson wrote:
I'm beginning to have major problems with updating new packages for
testing.
I'm having problem with amongst others man-db. I'm having similar problems
with xserver-xfree86, xserver-common and more.
For troubleshooting purposes I added 'set -x' but It didn't help me very
much. Hope anyone can tell me how to resolve from these problems.
Output from:
Setting up man-db (2.3.19-6) ...
+ '[' configure = configure ']'
+ oldcatdir=/var/catman
+ catdir=/var/cache/man
+ maybesetuid=man mandb
+ conffile=/etc/manpath.config
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
++ '[' '!' '' ']'
++ set -x
++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst
configure ''
dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
man-db
If you could try 'DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer dpkg --configure man-db'
(probably with the 'set -x' removed), that would be helpful.
Following you find the output of the command above.
openpad:~# DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer dpkg --configure man-db
Setting up man-db (2.3.19-6) ...
debconf (developer): frontend started
debconf (developer): frontend running, package name is man-db
debconf (developer): starting /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.config configure
debconf (developer): <-- VERSION 2.0
debconf (developer): --> 0 2.0
debconf (developer): <-- INPUT medium man-db/install-setuid
debconf (developer): --> 10 "man-db/install-setuid" doesn't exist
debconf (developer): <-- GO
debconf (developer): --> 0 ok
debconf (developer): <-- GET man-db/install-setuid
debconf (developer): --> 10 man-db/install-setuid doesn't exist
dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
man-db
>
> I don't *think* it's a problem with man-db, but you never know ... what
> version of debconf do you have installed?
>
openpad:~# openpad:~# dpkg -l debconf
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===================-===================-======================================================
ii debconf 1.0.00 Debian configuration
management system
I dont know if I should have an install-setuid script, but I dont seem
to have one. I have the following:
openpad:~# install
install install-fvwmgenmenu.sh install-mbr
installkernel
install-docs install-info install-menu
install-fvwmgenmenu install-keymap install-sgmlcatalog
I saw your correnspondance, which I found when searching on Google for
+man-db +install-setuid
I appreciate your effort.
-- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards
- Ingi
B
