Hello, I'm also using some unattended installation script from preseed/late_command hook with Squeeze and had the same problem.
It looks like a debconf frontend mismatch. If I want to use the current d-i frontend while chrooted in /target I got: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Newt And if I rely on the usual trick setting DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive, I got the famous "3: bad file descriptor". I'd love to make my preseed script communicate with d-i's frontend but it looks like it's not possible right now. My current workaround is to start my preseed script with: export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive unset DEBIAN_HAS_FRONTEND unset DEBCONF_REDIR unset DEBCONF_OLD_FD_BASE Then this works reliably when run from preseed/late_command: chroot /target apt-get install -qq -y package ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
