I'm convinced that the issue must lie with some "locale" configuration... it was apt-get but last week I discovered that kile's keyboard was also corrupt unless executed with LANG=C. It's almost impossible that the same thing is in apt-get aptitude kile... Also, the messages in apt appeared in Spanish asking for "Si/No" input (Si==yes in Spanish) but actually the key to press was "y" because "s" wasn't understood as "si". That smells "locale", isn't it?
Moreover, seems that some of the later maverick updates miraculously solved the problem, in the sense that in my computer now things seem to work ok. both apt-get and kile work today without LANG=C. I post the required command, but now its output seems OK. As it stands now, If you Torsten have administrative privileges on launchpad, perhaps you should "close" this bug in apt or at least tag it as "non-confirmed" and, well, as locale seems repaired, we'll just forget about it (I can no longer replicate it). Thanks! sudo sh -x /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub + set -e + set -- + mode= + mode= + exec update-grub Generating grub.cfg ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.35-22-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-25-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-25-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-23-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-23-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin done -- apt-get fails with LANG=es_ES.utf8, succeeds with LANG=C https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663694 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
