This bug is almost 8 year old. Any interest in fixing it?
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/551637
Title:
debconf seems to require a controlling TTY even when no interaction is
required
Status in debconf package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Binary package hint: debconf
Having installed NTP on a very similar workstation I expected no interaction,
so I typed:
% ssh root@falbala apt-get install ntp
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
linux-headers-2.6.32-16-generic linux-headers-2.6.32-16
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
ntp-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ntp
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Need to get 559kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,450kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main ntp
1:4.2.4p8+dfsg-1ubuntu
1 [559kB]
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (TERM is not set, so the dialog frontend is not usable.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
dpkg-preconfigure: unable to re-open stdin:
Fetched 559kB in 1s (412kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package ntp.
(Reading database ... E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation
fault
.
Of course adding "-t" on the ssh commandline works:
assurancetourix:~> ssh -t root@falbala apt-get install ntp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
linux-headers-2.6.32-16-generic linux-headers-2.6.32-16
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
ntp-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
ntp
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/559kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,450kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package ntp.
(Reading database ... 143304 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ntp (from .../ntp_1%3a4.2.4p8+dfsg-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Setting up ntp (1:4.2.4p8+dfsg-1ubuntu1) ...
* Starting NTP server ntpd [ OK
]
Connection to falbala closed.
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but I don't think that debconf should complain/fail and cause dpkg to
crash if it doesn't need to ask me anything.
Ubuntu Lucid.
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