Package: dictionaries-common Version: 0.65.0 Severity: normal the 'default' entry for miscfiles/languages is: Default: english (Webster's Second International English wordlist)
It has a "'" character in it. The "'" is not quoted when /var/cache/dictionaries-common/wordlist.db is created, which renders that file syntactically invalid perl: % perl -cw /var/cache/dictionaries-common/wordlist.db Substitution pattern not terminated at /var/cache/dictionaries-common/wordlist.db line 24. This in turn means that the loaddb() in /usr/sbin/update-default-wordlist returns an empty list and update-default-wordlist bombs out with /usr/sbin/update-default-wordlist No wordlist elements installed. I don't know why debconf-show failed (below). here's the output: dictionaries-common/invalid_debconf_value: dictionaries-common/ispell-autobuildhash-message: dictionaries-common/move_old_usr_dict: true dictionaries-common/selecting_ispell_wordlist_default: * dictionaries-common/default-ispell: american (American English) * dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: Manual forced (No wordlist elements installed) dictionaries-common/old_wordlist_link: true dictionaries-common/remove_old_usr_dict_link: false attached is a 'dpkg-reconfigure dictionaries-common' log with DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer in case that turns out to be useful -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages dictionaries-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.70 Debian configuration management sy ii perl 5.8.7-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction dictionaries-common recommends no packages. -- debconf-show failed
Script started on Tue 14 Feb 2006 01:45:23 AM EST [4mstarfury[24m:[1m~[0m> env DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer sudo dpkg-reconfigure -ftext -plow dict ionaries-common remove/dictionaries-common: Purging byte-compiled files for flavour emacs21 remove/dictionaries-common: Purging byte-compiled files for flavour xemacs21 debconf (developer): starting /var/lib/dpkg/info/dictionaries-common.config reconfigure 0.65.0 debconf (developer): <-- VERSION 2.0 debconf (developer): --> 0 2.0 debconf (developer): <-- SET dictionaries-common/remove_old_usr_dict_link false debconf (developer): --> 0 value set debconf (developer): <-- GO debconf (developer): --> 0 ok debconf (developer): <-- UNREGISTER dictionaries-common/languages debconf (developer): --> 10 dictionaries-common/languages doesn't exist debconf (developer): <-- UNREGISTER shared/packages-ispell debconf (developer): --> 0 debconf (developer): <-- UNREGISTER shared/packages-wordlist debconf (developer): --> 0 debconf (developer): <-- METAGET shared/packages-ispell owners debconf (developer): --> 0 iamerican, ibritish debconf (developer): <-- METAGET iamerican/languages default debconf (developer): --> 0 american (American English) debconf (developer): <-- METAGET ibritish/languages default debconf (developer): --> 0 british (British English) debconf (developer): <-- METAGET dictionaries-common/default-ispell choices debconf (developer): --> 0 american (American English), british (British English), Manual symlinks setting debconf (developer): <-- INPUT critical dictionaries-common/default-ispell debconf (developer): --> 0 question will be asked debconf (developer): <-- TITLE Dictionaries-common: Ispell dictionary debconf (developer): --> 0 debconf (developer): <-- GO Dictionaries-common: Ispell dictionary -------------------------------------- Because more than one ispell dictionary will be available in your system, please select the one you'd like applications to use by default. You can change the default ispell dictionary at any time by running "select-default-ispell". 1. american (American English) 3. Manual symlinks setting 2. british (British English) [4mWhich ispell dictionary should be the system's default? [24m1 [4mWhich ispell dictionary should be the system's default? [24m [4mWhich ispell dictionary should be the system's default? [24m1 debconf (developer): --> 0 ok debconf (developer): <-- METAGET shared/packages-wordlist owners debconf (developer): --> 0 miscfiles, wamerican, wamerican-large, wbritish, wbritish-large, wcanadian, wcanadian-large debconf (developer): <-- METAGET miscfiles/languages default debconf (developer): --> 0 english (Webster's Second International English wordlist) debconf (developer): <-- METAGET wamerican/languages default debconf (developer): --> 0 american (American English) debconf (developer): <-- METAGET wamerican-large/languages default debconf (developer): --> 0 american-large (American English -- large) debconf (developer): <-- METAGET wbritish/languages default debconf (developer): --> 0 british (British English) debconf (developer): <-- METAGET wbritish-large/languages default debconf (developer): --> 0 british-large (British English -- large) debconf (developer): <-- METAGET wcanadian/languages default debconf (developer): --> 0 canadian (Canadian English) debconf (developer): <-- METAGET wcanadian-large/languages default debconf (developer): --> 0 canadian-large (Canadian English -- large) debconf (developer): <-- METAGET dictionaries-common/default-wordlist choices debconf (developer): --> 0 american (American English), american-large (American English -- large), british (British English), british-large (British English -- large), canadian (Canadian English), canadian-large (Canadian English -- large), english (Webster's Second International English wordlist), Manual symlinks setting debconf (developer): <-- INPUT critical dictionaries-common/default-wordlist debconf (developer): --> 0 question will be asked debconf (developer): <-- TITLE Dictionaries-common: Wordlist dictionary debconf (developer): --> 0 debconf (developer): <-- GO Dictionaries-common: Wordlist dictionary ---------------------------------------- Because more than one wordlist will be available in your system, please select the one you'd like applications to use by default. You can change the default wordlist at any time by running "select-default-wordlist". 1. american (American English) 2. american-large (American English -- large) 3. british (British English) 4. british-large (British English -- large) 5. canadian (Canadian English) 6. canadian-large (Canadian English -- large) 7. english (Webster's Second International English wordlist) 8. Manual symlinks setting [4mWhich wordlist should be the system's default? [24m [4mWhich wordlist should be the system's default? [24m [4mWhich wordlist should be the system's default? [24m1 [4mWhich wordlist should be the system's default? [24m [4mWhich wordlist should be the system's default? [24m1 debconf (developer): --> 0 ok debconf (developer): starting /var/lib/dpkg/info/dictionaries-common.postinst configure 0.65.0 debconf (developer): <-- VERSION 2.0 debconf (developer): --> 0 2.0 debconf (developer): <-- GET dictionaries-common/default-ispell debconf (developer): --> 0 american (American English) debconf (developer): <-- VERSION 2.0 debconf (developer): --> 0 2.0 debconf (developer): <-- GET dictionaries-common/default-wordlist debconf (developer): --> 0 american (American English) /usr/sbin/update-default-wordlist No wordlist elements installed. debconf (developer): <-- SET dictionaries-common/default-wordlist Manual forced (No wordlist elements installed) debconf (developer): --> 0 value set debconf (developer): <-- GO debconf (developer): --> 0 ok Updating OpenOffice.org's dictionary list... done. install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour emacs21 Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell.elc Done install/dictionaries-common: Byte-compiling for emacsen flavour xemacs21 Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.el... Wrote /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.elc Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.el... Wrote /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.elc Compiling /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell.el... Wrote /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell.elc Done [4mstarfury[24m:[1m~[0m> ^D Script done on Tue 14 Feb 2006 01:45:42 AM EST
