On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 05:20:29PM -0700, Chad Woolley <thewoolley...@gmail.com> was heard to say: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Daniel Burrows <dburr...@debian.org> wrote: > > You're becoming root like this: > > > > $ run "sudo su -c 'echo \"#{pw_file}\" > > > /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat'" > > > > It sounds like you're getting a prompt from sudo? > > No, that's not it - I have nopasswd set in sudoers. All other > commands I run via sudo run fine. It is just the mysql server install > that hangs.
Maybe you could run pstree to find out what's generating that prompt? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org