Eike Lantzsch wrote: > I'm sure I didn't enter "whiptail" nor "whiptail:" in any dialog. > But anyway, your answer put me back on track. > dpkg-reconfigure didn't work because plex86 wasn't completely > installed. In /var/cache/debconf/config.dat were two "value:"- > entries which are supposed to contain the username and nothing > else. However the two values contained an error message starting > with "whiptail:". I deleted the entries. This enabled me to run > dpkg -i plex86-kernel-2.4.20 again. Then dpkg-reconfigure was run > successfully and brought up the configuration dialog for plex86 > where I was able to enter the usernames for the plex86 group. > This time the values in config.dat were set correctly. > > I don't know where this went wrong in the first place neither could > I reproduce the error. It was a glitch. Thus: no bug report.
whiptail overloads standard error to be used for both error messages and returning the text you enter to debconf. Since is also overloads the standard exit codes, debconf has no way to tell when it has failed, vs. when the user has entered some text and hit the cancel button or something like that. This is bug #153628, and I hope it will eventually be fixed with an --output-fd switch added to whiptail, like dialog has. -- see shy jo
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