Actually, it breaks stuff.
Example: installing snmpd fails with the following message:
dpkg: error processing snmpd (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
status 128
Errors were encountered while processing:
snmpd
And the debug log, when I activate "set -x" in the postinst:
root@beeznest02:/var/log# dpkg --configure -a
+ dpkg --configure -a
Setting up snmpd (5.4.3~dfsg-2) ...
+ [ xconfigure = xconfigure ]
+ getent group snmp
+ [ ! ]
+ deluser --quiet --system snmp
sent invalidate(passwd) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
sent invalidate(passwd) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
sent invalidate(passwd) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
sent invalidate(passwd) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
+ adduser --quiet --system --group --no-create-home --home
/var/lib/snmp snmp
sent invalidate(passwd) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
sent invalidate(passwd) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
sent invalidate(passwd) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
sent invalidate(passwd) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
sent invalidate(passwd) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
sent invalidate(passwd) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
sent invalidate(passwd) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
sent invalidate(passwd) request, exiting
sent invalidate(group) request, exiting
+ chown -R snmp:snmp /var/lib/snmp
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
+ [ ! ]
+ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1
+ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY
+ [ ]
+ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/snmpd.postinst
configure
+ [ xconfigure = xconfigure ]
+ getent group snmp
+ [ ! ]
+ deluser --quiet --system snmp
+ adduser --quiet --system --group --no-create-home --home
/var/lib/snmp snmp
+ chown -R snmp:snmp /var/lib/snmp
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
+ [ ! 1 ]
+ [ -z ]
+ exec
+ [ ]
+ exec
+ DEBCONF_REDIR=1
+ export DEBCONF_REDIR
+ db_version 2.0
+ _db_cmd VERSION 2.0
+ IFS= printf %s\n VERSION 2.0
+ IFS=
read -r _db_internal_line
+ RET=20 Unsupported command "sent" (full line was "sent
invalidate(passwd) request, exiting") received from confmodule.
+ return 20
+ [ -x /etc/init.d/snmpd ]
+ update-rc.d snmpd defaults
+ which invoke-rc.d
+ [ -x /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d ]
+ invoke-rc.d snmpd start
Starting network management services: snmpd.
+ exit 0
As you can see, there is a problem with debconf.
Probably a good reason to raise the severity of this bug.
Hope it helps.
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