Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-20 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Actually, no. The regular whiptail and slang1 are installed. However, I removed whiptail and modconf and then reinstalled them and now the proper behavior is present. I am not sure what might have happened here except that in the installation using a current woody CD, the user who initially set

Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Carlo U. Segre wrote: > whiptail: error while loading shared libraries: libslang.so.1-UTF8: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Perhaps a dependency is wrong but I don't understand the "-UTF8" on my > other working machines there is no such library. Seems to me you may

Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:55:41AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:08:27PM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > > # dpkg-recnfigure debconf > > Just returns to the prompt with no other output. > > That's because you have debconf configured not to ask questions again > once you'

Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:08:27PM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > # dpkg-recnfigure debconf > Just returns to the prompt with no other output. That's because you have debconf configured not to ask questions again once you've answered them, or it's set to non-interactive. > From the debconf manu

RE: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-19 Thread Carlo U. Segre
done that, no difference. The debconf manual states that when you run dpkg-reconfigure debconf, it will always ask the questions. This is abnormal behavior... Thanks Carlo On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Narins, Josh wrote: > Sounds like your debconf priority got set to "critical" ? > > Try > > dpkg-re

Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-19 Thread Joey Hess
Narins, Josh wrote: > Sounds like your debconf priority got set to "critical" ? Nope, he said that dpkg-reconfigure debconf asked nothing. dpkg-reconfigure temporarily forces the priority to low so you should alawys see all questions when running it. I asked for a DEBCONF_DEBUG log in private mail

RE: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-19 Thread Narins, Josh
Sounds like your debconf priority got set to "critical" ? Try > dpkg-reconfigure --priority low debconf Actually, I am not in front of a debian box now, perhaps "low" should be in quotes. I believe there is also an environment variable you can set to do the same thing. hth, -Josh > -