Debian Bug report logs - #467101
foomatic-filters installation script crashes (dialog?)

Package: libgpmg1; Maintainer for libgpmg1 is (unknown);

Reported by: Wouter Van Hemel <debian@publica.duodecim.org>

Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:03:06 UTC

Severity: important

Merged with 466426, 466468, 466764, 467006

Found in version gpm/1.20.3~pre3-1

Fixed in version gpm/1.20.3~pre3-2

Done: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>:
Bug#467101; Package dialog. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Wouter Van Hemel <debian@publica.duodecim.org>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).

Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: dialog
Version: 1.1-20071028-3
Severity: normal


Hello,

The latest update of foomatic-filters crashes in console, but not in xterm (Konsole).

I suspect this crash to be dialog related. I don't have gpm running or even installed.

Error message (dialog output stripped):

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Reading extended state information...
Initializing package states...
Reading task descriptions...
Building tag database...
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  foomatic-db-engine foomatic-filters 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up foomatic-filters (3.0.2-20080211-2) ...
[dialog menu output]
debug [lib/liblow.c(212)]:
VC: 0
*** info [lib/liblow.c(337)]:
/dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory
*** info [lib/liblow.c(344)]:
/dev/gpmctl: No such file or directory
*** err [lib/liblow.c(388)]:
Oh, oh, it's an error! possibly I die! 
debconf: dialog output the above errors, giving up!
dpkg: error processing foomatic-filters (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of foomatic-db-engine:
 foomatic-db-engine depends on foomatic-filters; however:
  Package foomatic-filters is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing foomatic-db-engine (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 foomatic-filters
 foomatic-db-engine
Setting up foomatic-filters (3.0.2-20080211-2) ...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...



I didn't get any errors in X though.


Thanks,

  Wouter Van Hemel


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dialog depends on:
ii  debianutils               2.28.3         Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                     2.7-8          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncursesw5              5.6+20080203-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand

dialog recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

Bug reassigned from package `dialog' to `libgpmg1'. Request was from Wouter Van Hemel <debian@publica.duodecim.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:15:01 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Forcibly Merged 466426 466468 466764 467006 467101. Request was from Wouter Van Hemel <wouter@publica.duodecim.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Sat, 23 Feb 2008 02:36:07 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).