Re: Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK - October 10-13 2024

2024-06-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 12:18:56PM +0200, somebody *claiming* to be Luna Jernberg wrote: Just to be 100% clear, that mail didn't come from Luna's normal gmail account but was instead spoofed and sent via emkei.cz, a "free online fake mailer". It's now blocked from Debian lists. -- Steve McInt

RE: Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK - October 10-13 2024

2024-06-24 Thread Luna Jernberg
will not be attending Debcamp/Debconf at all this year last week of July/first week of August as I am tired of drama in the Debian community right now and sledge was being an asshole and banned me from OFTC for a month like the transphobic pig he is, however will be attending as an online

Re: trouble with debconf

2021-05-28 Thread IL Ka
On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 7:54 PM Patrice Duroux wrote: > > I have finally found the source of this trouble. > The absence of /var/lib/cdebconf directory after a bad manipulation. https://packages.debian.org/sid/cdebconf # apt install cdebconf This is a folder to store answers fo

Re: trouble with debconf

2021-05-28 Thread Patrice Duroux
I have finally found the source of this trouble. The absence of /var/lib/cdebconf directory after a bad manipulation. And then even trying to reinstall the debconf package did not (re)create this folder, so any package that rdepends to debconf is falling and also debconf it- self. Which package

trouble with debconf

2021-05-27 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hi, Recently on my Sid system, I am having the following trouble (note that I tried since then to reinstall debconf that is also affected by the trouble now): patrice@kos-moceratops ~> sudo LANG=C apt -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading st

Re: Backup debconf state

2021-01-19 Thread Sven Joachim
c, but It would be > handy to have the state of debconf (with all the answers I already > gave). > Is a backup of /var/cache debconf sufficient for this ? Yes, that should be enough. Note that maintainer scripts which use debconf should first consult the configuration files in /etc and on

Re: Backup debconf state

2021-01-19 Thread Erwan David
Le 19/01/2021 à 16:23, Andy Smith a écrit : Hi Erwan, On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:09:47PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: It would be handy to have the state of debconf (with all the answers I already gave). I do: dpkg --get-selections \* > /var/lib/dpkg_selections debconf-get-selections >

Re: Backup debconf state

2021-01-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Erwan, On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:09:47PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: > It would be handy to have the state of debconf (with all the > answers I already gave). I do: dpkg --get-selections \* > /var/lib/dpkg_selections debconf-get-selections > /var/lib/debconf_selections (and

Backup debconf state

2021-01-19 Thread Erwan David
Hello everybody If I want to be able to fast reinstall a debian after a crash, I already backup /etc (including /etc/apt), a file with the output of apt-show manual to get the list of manually installed packages, /etc, but It would be handy to have the state of debconf (with all the answers I

mini-debconf 2017 in Toulouse, FRANCE

2017-09-13 Thread Denis Briand
Hello everyone ! The Debian France Association [1] organizes a mini-debconf in Toulouse (south west France). This event will welcome everyone with an interest in the Debian project for a series of talks and workshops about Debian. This mini-debconf will take place in the same time and place of

Re: Debconf python module

2017-08-15 Thread Gustavo Ferreira
Oh, I missed that, indeed it is there. My bad. Thank you very much for your help. Best regards, Gustavo On 15 Aug 2017 16:12, "Michael Lange" wrote: Hi, On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:59:12 +0100 Gustavo Ferreira wrote: > Hi, > > I've been reading about debconf internals l

Re: Debconf python module

2017-08-15 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:59:12 +0100 Gustavo Ferreira wrote: > Hi, > > I've been reading about debconf internals lately and I've seen some > references to the "debconf python module". > > Even the man page for *debconf-devel* mentions it: > > &

Debconf python module

2017-08-15 Thread Gustavo Ferreira
Hi, I've been reading about debconf internals lately and I've seen some references to the "debconf python module". Even the man page for *debconf-devel* mentions it: "Perl programmers can use the Debconf::Client::ConfModule(3pm) perl module, and *python programmers c

Re: [_]debconf-show - custom apt/apt-get tab completion no longer working after upgrade

2017-07-25 Thread Dan Ritter
27; > alias agi='sudo apt install' > > Used to successfully use the following to make these and other > aliases tab-complete: > CUSTOM_APT_COMPLETIONS="agu agi ..." > for i in $CUSTOM_APT_COMPLETIONS; do >#make-completion-wrapper debconf-show $i >

[_]debconf-show - custom apt/apt-get tab completion no longer working after upgrade

2017-07-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
se and other aliases tab-complete: CUSTOM_APT_COMPLETIONS="agu agi ..." for i in $CUSTOM_APT_COMPLETIONS; do #make-completion-wrapper debconf-show $i complete -F _debconf-show $i #complete -C debconf-show $i done It seems the function _debconf-show used to exist here: . /etc/ba

Re: Does debconf-set-selections automatically deletes values from debconf database once they are used?

2016-11-13 Thread Yuri Kanivetsky
Hi, The answer can be found here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/11/msg00552.html Regards, Yuri

Does debconf-set-selections automatically deletes values from debconf database once they are used?

2016-11-05 Thread Yuri Kanivetsky
Hi, One of these days, I made, say, unattended install of different version of mysql. And the main concern is about putting passwords in debconf database (if they are left there or not). But also I'm curious what's exactly happening there. Consider the following typescript:

Re: Where does debconf database content come from?

2016-09-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-09-03 12:18 +0300, Yuri Kanivetsky wrote: > For all I know, debconf database is supposed to store "answers" to > configuration parameters of packages. But when you install operating > system, you aren't given an opportunity to specify them. Not all of > them at

Where does debconf database content come from?

2016-09-03 Thread Yuri Kanivetsky
Hi, For all I know, debconf database is supposed to store "answers" to configuration parameters of packages. But when you install operating system, you aren't given an opportunity to specify them. Not all of them at least. There are a bunch of them in /var/cache/debconf/config.da

Where does debconf database content come from?

2016-08-26 Thread Yuri Kanivetsky
Hi, For all I know, debconf database is supposed to store "answers" to configuration parameters of packages. But when you install operating system, you aren't given an opportunity to specify them. Not all of them at least. There are a bunch of them in /var/cache/debconf/config.da

Re: entries of /var/cache/debconf/config.dat concerning purged packages

2015-12-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-12-31 18:00:09 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 31 Dec 2015 at 17:58:52 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Is it normal that /var/cache/debconf/config.dat contains entries that > > correspond to purged packages? > > No. OK, thanks. So, I've just reported a

Re: entries of /var/cache/debconf/config.dat concerning purged packages

2015-12-31 Thread Brian
On Thu 31 Dec 2015 at 17:58:52 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Is it normal that /var/cache/debconf/config.dat contains entries that > correspond to purged packages? No. echo purge | debconf-communicate

entries of /var/cache/debconf/config.dat concerning purged packages

2015-12-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Is it normal that /var/cache/debconf/config.dat contains entries that correspond to purged packages? -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

we want you ☞ (debconf subtitles effort)

2014-08-25 Thread alberto fuentes
Did you ever wanted to help but werent sure what to do? we want you! We are trying to create subtitles for the debconf talks. Theres no technical requirement at all and you might learn a couple of technical things after you are done if you want! As a perk, you will have early access to debconf

Re: [SOLVED] debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-07-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 01 Jul 2014 06:12:07 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > > I found version 5.20.0-1 in experimental, and installed it. > Problem solved. Well, version 5.20.0-1 did solve the problem, as far as eliminating the program exception is concerned. But it also broke packages such as libhtml-par

[SOLVED] debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-07-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 12:40:38 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: > > I tried an "apt-get dist-upgrade" of my jessie system yesterday, with bad > results. It seems that debconf is bricked. Currently, there are three > packages > that are unpacked but not configured: tzd

Re: debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-06-17 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 13:55:37 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: >> >> You might have better luck with "dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive >> -pcritical debconf". > > Thanks for the suggestion, bu

Re: debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 13:55:37 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: > > You might have better luck with "dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive > -pcritical debconf". Thanks for the suggestion, but it did not work. Here's what I got: - root@smp6:~# dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive

Re: debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I tried an "apt-get dist-upgrade" of my jessie system yesterday, with bad > results. It seems that debconf is bricked. Currently, there are three packages > that are unpacked but not configured: tzdata, locale

debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-06-15 Thread Stephen Powell
I tried an "apt-get dist-upgrade" of my jessie system yesterday, with bad results. It seems that debconf is bricked. Currently, there are three packages that are unpacked but not configured: tzdata, locales, and debconf. (There were originally two: tzdata and locales. I tried re

Re: About localepurge debconf selections

2012-09-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 sep 12, 01:19:27, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Where can I find the explanation of the following localepurge debconf > selection settings? > > $ debconf-get-selections |grep ^localepurge > localepurge localepurge/quickndirtycalc boolean true > localepurge

About localepurge debconf selections

2012-09-01 Thread T o n g
Hi, Where can I find the explanation of the following localepurge debconf selection settings? $ debconf-get-selections |grep ^localepurge localepurge localepurge/quickndirtycalc boolean true localepurge localepurge/remove_no note localepurge localepurge/mandelete boolean

Re: debconf configuration question in one window

2012-03-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
> > > Please help me how to do this on single window? Whether questions are displayed as a single or two "windows" is entirely up to the debconf front-end - it is not under the control of maintainer scripts. For example, the Gnome front-end will ask multiple questions in

debconf configuration question in one window

2012-03-13 Thread Bilal mk
#!/bin/sh -e # Source debconf library. . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule # server type? db_input critical myapp/domain-name || true db_input critical myapp/ip-address || true db_go = templates Template: myapp/domain-name Type: string Description

Re: debconf answerfile

2011-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d46939a.6080...@coffeehabit.net>, Lists wrote: >pretty much what the subject says. I would like to feed answers to >debconf so that I can script installing packages on a new machine. > >I am unable to use preseed (which would solve this) because it's a >virtual serv

debconf answerfile

2011-01-31 Thread Lists
Hi guys, pretty much what the subject says. I would like to feed answers to debconf so that I can script installing packages on a new machine. I am unable to use preseed (which would solve this) because it's a virtual server and I don't have access to the kernel. What I want is

Re: how are debconf and dpkg-deb related?

2010-03-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, debconf is an infrastructure where a package ask configuration question to the sys admin. There are few different front end for sys admin to interact with debconf. On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 10:58:18PM -0800, vikram wrote: > hi, > > I am studying the Debian package management sys

how are debconf and dpkg-deb related?

2010-03-07 Thread vikram
hi, I am studying the Debian package management system. I am having trouble figuring out how debconf and dpkg-deb are related. Heres how i understand the package management system: dpkg-deb does the actual installation/removal of packages dpkg is a frontend to dpkg-deb apt is front end

Re: debconf dialogue buttons garbled

2010-02-25 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:51:27 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-02-25 01:49 +0100, Celejar wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:36:39 -0300 > > Cassiano Leal wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> See that there is garbage after the acual button texts? This ha

Re: debconf dialogue buttons garbled

2010-02-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-02-25 01:49 +0100, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:36:39 -0300 > Cassiano Leal wrote: > > ... > >> See that there is garbage after the acual button texts? This happens >> on all debconf buttons. What could be causing this? >> >> This is an

Re: debconf dialogue buttons garbled

2010-02-24 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:36:39 -0300 Cassiano Leal wrote: ... > See that there is garbage after the acual button texts? This happens > on all debconf buttons. What could be causing this? > > This is an up-to-date sid box. I'm seeing this to, on my uptodate Sid box. I guess

debconf dialogue buttons garbled

2010-02-24 Thread Cassiano Leal
Hi, The buttons on all debconf dialogues in my box are somewhat garbled. As an example, this is a samba dialogue: ┌──┤ Samba Server │ │ │ If your computer gets IP address information from a DHCP server on

Creating progress bars with debconf

2009-10-07 Thread roy hills
I want to use debconf to display progress information to the user. I'm doing a netboot install of lenny on many i386 systems using URL preseeding plus a late_command shell script. I want to give user feedback from the late_command script. I've seen some references to "db_progr

Re: apt-get (debconf) throws strange errors while upgradinglibpam0g Debian lenny package

2008-08-20 Thread rainmailbox2001-ola
> Hi. > I was just trying to install today's updates for Debian lenny > (testing), and debconf throws these errors at me while upgrading > libpam0: > > Preconfiguring packages ... > Setting up libpam0g (1.0.1-2) ... > Checking for services that may need to be rest

Re: apt-get (debconf) throws strange errors while upgrading libpam0g Debian lenny package

2008-08-20 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 13:51:58 -0700, rainmailbox2001-ola AT yahoo DOT ca wrote: > Hi. > I was just trying to install today's updates for Debian lenny > (testing), and debconf throws these errors at me while upgrading > libpam0: > > Preconfiguring packages ... > Se

apt-get (debconf) throws strange errors while upgrading libpam0g Debian lenny package

2008-08-20 Thread rainmailbox2001-ola
Hi. I was just trying to install today's updates for Debian lenny (testing), and debconf throws these errors at me while upgrading libpam0: Preconfiguring packages ... Setting up libpam0g (1.0.1-2) ... Checking for services that may need to be restarted...Checking init scripts... debconf: U

Does debconf-set-selections do anything to installed packages' configs?

2008-07-15 Thread Shachar Or
Hello! When I do debconf-set-selections to set a debconf selection on some package that is already installed, it doesn't actually change that package's configuration, right? To "apply" these changes/selections, I'll have to go dpkg-reconfigure on that package, ri

Re: Re: Debconf problem: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process

2008-06-23 Thread Joe Hickey
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:20:44AM +0100, Jason Williams wrote: > Have the same problem as Graham did, but I'm still new at this and don't > really understand how to find and disable running process(s)? Please > help, trying to get my soundcard working, really doing my head in. A simple way of fin

Re: Re: Debconf problem: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process

2008-06-23 Thread Jason Williams
Have the same problem as Graham did, but I'm still new at this and don't really understand how to find and disable running process(s)? Please help, trying to get my soundcard working, really doing my head in. Cheers, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: debconf dependency problems

2008-05-06 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Has anyone encountered this problem? Is there any workaround? There[1] seem to be a problem with debconf-i18n package in sid. It is to do with the Perl 5.10 transition. [1] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg00019.html

Re: debconf dependency problems

2008-05-05 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Has anyone encountered this problem? Is there any workaround? > There[1] seem to be a problem with debconf-i18n package in sid. It is to do with the Perl 5.10 transition. [1] - http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/05/msg00019.html hth raju -- Kama

debconf dependency problems

2008-05-05 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
dependencies: debconf: Depends: debconf-i18n but it is not going to be installed or debconf-english but it is not going to be installed E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. == I have manually upgrades debconf-i18n and

Re: debconf problem

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:02:29PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:00:16PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am trying to use debconf to setup some other packages from within a meta > > package. > > > > > > I

Re: debconf problem

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 08:00:16PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to use debconf to setup some other packages from within a meta > package. > > > I have grabbed the desired debconf setting with > > debconf-get-selections | grep -i locale > >

debconf problem

2008-02-02 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am trying to use debconf to setup some other packages from within a meta package. I have grabbed the desired debconf setting with debconf-get-selections | grep -i locale I get back locales locales/locales_to_be_generated multiselect en_AU ISO-8859-1, en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8, en_GB ISO

Re: Debconf does not work

2008-01-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:47:43AM +0100, Miguel J. Jim?nez wrote: > Hi, while using synaptic debconf complains with this message and does > not work at all: > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 > at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 54. > debconf: no se p

Debconf does not work

2008-01-23 Thread Miguel J.
Hi, while using synaptic debconf complains with this message and does not work at all: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 54. debconf: no se pudo inicializar la interfaz: Gnome debconf: (DISPLAY problem?) debconf: probando ahora la

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-18 Thread Joey Hess
Alex Gonzalez wrote: > For nr 2 I realized that apt-get was being run through a python script > which was using commands.getstatusoutput. Changing this with an > os.system call fixed the problem. Yes, if you redirect whiptail's output, you obviously won't see it on screen. -- see shy jo signat

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-18 Thread Alex Gonzalez
Hi, Thanks for your help. There were two problems here, 1) debconf didn't seem to reconfigure after a purge - this was fixed with Joey's comments, thanks a lot. 2) whiptail seemed not to display a configuration dialog. For nr 2 I realized that apt-get was being run through a pyt

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-17 Thread Joey Hess
Alex Gonzalez wrote: > pvalex:~# debconf-show pvrfs > * pvrfs/partition: /dev/hda2 > pvalex:~# apt-get --purge remove pvrfs > pvalex:~# debconf-show pvrfs > pvalex:~# > pvalex:~# apt-get install pvrfs > debconf (developer): <-- INPUT high pvrfs/partition > debconf (

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:21:12PM +, Alex Gonzalez wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks for your answer. > > I had been playing with the debconf configuration changing priority > values, to no avail. > > The current configuration is: > > debconf-apt-progress/

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-17 Thread Alex Gonzalez
Hi Andrew, Thanks for your answer. I had been playing with the debconf configuration changing priority values, to no avail. The current configuration is: debconf-apt-progress/info: debconf-apt-progress/preparing: * debconf/frontend: Dialog * debconf/priority: low debconf-apt-progress

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:59:35PM +, Alex Gonzalez wrote: > Back to my first problem, debconf doesn't reconfigure itself after the > purge. Here is the sequence of events, > > > pvalex:~# debconf-show pvrfs > * pvrfs/partition: /dev/hda2 > pvalex:~# apt-get --pu

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-17 Thread Alex Gonzalez
Back to my first problem, debconf doesn't reconfigure itself after the purge. Here is the sequence of events, pvalex:~# debconf-show pvrfs * pvrfs/partition: /dev/hda2 pvalex:~# apt-get --purge remove pvrfs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following pac

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-17 Thread Alex Gonzalez
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:50:42PM +, Alex Gonzalez wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is it possible to force debconf to forget about a package > > configuration on removal, or to always ask the configuration questions > > on install? > &

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:50:42PM +, Alex Gonzalez wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to force debconf to forget about a package > configuration on removal, or to always ask the configuration questions > on install? I'm sure there is a way to do the second, and there is a

Help with debconf

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Gonzalez
Hi, Is it possible to force debconf to forget about a package configuration on removal, or to always ask the configuration questions on install? I have this packet that is configured the first time it's installed, but then never asks again if you don't dpkg-reconfigure it. However, i

debconf-set-selections + dpkg-reconfigure: why don't my settings stick?

2007-10-05 Thread Alexis Huxley
I would like to configure some packages "the Debian way", but non-interactively, I used debconf-set-selections to set the settings I wanted. Then I used debconf-get-selections to verify that the setting had been correctly registered. Finally I ran dpkg-reconfigure in non-interactive m

FW: Re: Synaptic - debconf: TERM not set

2007-09-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
ject: Re: Synaptic - debconf: TERM not set The debconf lines are similar to mine so it may be the same issue. I guess I'll wait and see what the outcome of that bug is. Thanks for your input. Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:39:58AM -0400, Chris Capon wrote: >

Re: Synaptic - debconf: TERM not set

2007-09-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:39:58AM -0400, Chris Capon wrote: > After a recent upgrade (testing distribution), Synaptic started showing > this message: > > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog > debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.) >

Synaptic - debconf: TERM not set

2007-09-10 Thread Chris Capon
After a recent upgrade (testing distribution), Synaptic started showing this message: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline for every package or upgrade being installed

Re: debconf output

2007-07-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Hugo. Hugo Vanwoerkom, 14.07.2007 23:19: I'd like to keep a record of what I told debconf for the packages that it asked configuration parameters for. What's the best way to extract that info? Just found this command by trial

Re: debconf output

2007-07-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Hugo. Hugo Vanwoerkom, 14.07.2007 23:19: I'd like to keep a record of what I told debconf for the packages that it asked configuration parameters for. What's the best way to extract that info? Just found this command by trial and error: debconf-get-

Re: debconf output

2007-07-14 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Hugo. Hugo Vanwoerkom, 14.07.2007 23:19: > I'd like to keep a record of what I told debconf for the packages that > it asked configuration parameters for. > > What's the best way to extract that info? Just found this command by trial and error: debconf-get-selectio

debconf output

2007-07-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
5.0. I ran apt-get dist-upgrade in script, so I have all the output. However, the debconf output is buried deep within the typescript file. I'd like to keep a record of what I told debconf for the packages that it asked configuration parameters for. What's the best way to extract that info

debconf for exim4

2007-07-03 Thread Tony Heal
I am trying to automate the upgrade from sarge to etch for 300+ servers. To do this I need to get rid of 20 or so questions that get asked by exim4 during the upgrade. I am not sure if I can get debconf to work for this, but this is what I think I want. The first question is

Re: Re: debconf problem in foomatic-filters

2007-05-12 Thread Felix Lechner
Florian, Thank you for the helpful pointers. Further examination showed an inconsistency in the debconf database. The template "foomatic-filters/gspath" was reserved by "foomatic-filters/textfilter" (the user defined by debconf-communicate). Deleting the entry ma

Re: debconf problem in foomatic-filters

2007-05-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
d be > reported? > > Package maintainer Chris Lawrence has not yet responded. > > Sincerely, > Felix > > ---- Original Message > Subject: debconf problem in foomatic-filters > Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 09:43:34 -0500 > From: Felix Lechner > To: Chr

debconf problem in foomatic-filters

2007-05-08 Thread Felix Lechner
, Felix Original Message Subject: debconf problem in foomatic-filters Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 09:43:34 -0500 From: Felix Lechner To: Chris Lawrence Hello Chris, I have a problem installing foomatic-filters_3.0.2-20061031-1.2_all.deb. For some reason, the config mechanism for

debconf makes dpkg-divert errors.

2006-07-30 Thread Jabka Atu
Howdy,... in the next scrinario apt-get will make dpkg diverisons and will mass up your system . { debconf is on kde. the X is not allwaing root to connect /the X is off. } if you try installing some packages that have to be configure debconf will faill to configure and apt-get will not

debconf/config.dat corruption

2006-07-04 Thread Conrad Williams
failure, before reboot. Changed init.d file system checking scripts to include logsave. Then was a shutdown -F which cleanup up some inode issues and files (logsave didn't work). So I don't know exactly what has been altered. Logsave was not saved in either /var/log/aptitude or the debconf/

(Solved) dpkg-reconfigure debconf

2006-01-14 Thread David R. Litwin
okay okay I get it. you can't reconfigure debconf because reconfigure wants to use KDE... well per man debconf, there is more info in debconf(7) part of debconf-doc. apt-get install debconf-doc; man 7 debconf; found this:passing --frontend= to dpkg-reconfigure will specify the frontend to us

Re: dpkg-reconfigure debconf

2006-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:13:03 -0500 "David R. Litwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ummm... its in your subject line. though you need sudo or to be root. > > > > dpkg-reconfigure debconf > > > > then select dialog. > > > If only it were

Re: dpkg-reconfigure debconf

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Litwin
ummm... its in your subject line. though you need sudo or to be root.dpkg-reconfigure debconf then select dialog.If only it were that simplex!I changed the dialogue to KDE which means it needs X which I un-installed. It won't let me reconfigure any thing.Does that make sense? It's not ob

Re: dpkg-reconfigure debconf

2006-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
get install xserver-xorg. It didn't work. I removed X > (since it never compiled properly in the first place) and tried to reinstall > it. It needs debconf and friends. Well, I had set dpkg-reconfigure debconf > to use KDE-style dialogues. That's very nice, but now I need to

dpkg-reconfigure debconf

2006-01-10 Thread David R. Litwin
e) and tried to reinstall it. It needs debconf and friends. Well, I had set dpkg-reconfigure debconf to use KDE-style dialogues. That's very nice, but now I need to use it with out X so that I can get X. So, the question is: How do I reconfigure debconf to use dialogue (or which ever the option

Re: debconf

2005-09-06 Thread Derek \"The Monkey\" Wueppelmann
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 23:38 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > I have set debconf to use gtk by accident: I want it to be displayed > with KDE's Qt. When I try to do dpkg-reconfigure debconf, it either > says I do not have permission, or it says: # dpkg-reconfigure debconf > Xl

Re: debconf

2005-09-06 Thread Cedric BRINER
use sux instead of sudo.. ti will give you a root terminal with the right to use your X or slogin [EMAIL PROTECTED] or .. Ced. > >>Use sudo. > >> > >> > >> > > > >Hm My sudo is not configured. > > > > > > > `su` then. Doesn't matter how you get root privs, you just need to run > it with

Re: debconf

2005-09-06 Thread Oliver Lupton
David R. Litwin wrote: Use sudo. Hm My sudo is not configured. `su` then. Doesn't matter how you get root privs, you just need to run it with them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debconf

2005-09-05 Thread David R. Litwin
Use sudo.Hm My sudo is not configured.-- —A watched bread-crumb never boils.—My hover-craft is full of eels.—‽ <--You've just been Interrobanged.—[...]and that's the he and the she of it.

Re: debconf

2005-09-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:38:16PM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > I have set debconf to use gtk by accident: I want it to be displayed with > KDE's Qt. When I try to do dpkg-reconfigure debconf, it either says I do not > have permission, or it says: # dpkg-reconfigure debconf >

debconf

2005-09-05 Thread David R. Litwin
I have set debconf to use gtk by accident: I want it to be displayed with KDE's Qt. When I try to do dpkg-reconfigure debconf, it either says I do not have permission, or it says: # dpkg-reconfigure debconfXlib: connection to ": 0.0" refused by serverXlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-C

Re: debconf

2005-08-26 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La David R. Litwin ha escrit, a 21/08/05 20:26: > # dpkg-reconfigure debconf > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > dpkg-reconfigure: cannot connect to X server :0 > > And, with a normal user > > $ dpkg-reconfi

Re: debconf

2005-08-26 Thread Jules Dubois
On Friday 26 August 2005 19:50, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Did you have your sudo pre-configured? I configured it myself manually -- after an RTFM or two. > Mine does not work; my user was not a sudoer. When I went to add david > ALL=ALL (so I don't need t

Re: debconf

2005-08-26 Thread David R. Litwin
> sudo /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure debconfDid you have your sudo pre-configured? Mine does not work; my user was not a sudoer. When I went to add david ALL=ALL (so I don't need to type the pass-word every time), it now says $ sudo apt-get update sudo: /etc/sudoers is mode 0666, should be 0440.Is the

Re: Debconf 2015 Pictures..

2005-08-24 Thread Kent West
Hasan D wrote: >one >http://fotopasaj.com/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=17 > >two >http://fotopasaj.com/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=10 > >the gallery >http://fotopasaj.com/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=penguin > >the site is in Turkish.. > > The first two to

Re: Debconf 2015 Pictures..

2005-08-24 Thread valentin_nils
Is that just me or does the below links not work ? Best regards Nils Valentin http://www.be-known-online.com > one > http://fotopasaj.com/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=17 > > two > http://fotopasaj.com/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=10 > > the gallery > http://fotopasaj.com/t

Debconf 2015 Pictures..

2005-08-23 Thread Hasan D
one http://fotopasaj.com/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=17 two http://fotopasaj.com/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pos=10 the gallery http://fotopasaj.com/thumbnails.php?album=search&type=full&search=penguin the site is in Turkish..

Re: debconf

2005-08-21 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 02:26:10PM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > > # dpkg-reconfigure debconf > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > dpkg-reconfigure: cannot connect to X server :0 > > And, with a normal user >

Re: debconf

2005-08-21 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050821 20:26]: > # dpkg-reconfigure debconf > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > dpkg-reconfigure: cannot connect to X server :0 You became root by a simple "su"? So y

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