On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 07:33:25PM +0200, Bertrand Marc wrote: > Hi, > > I checked and found wamerican on my system. Therefore > /usr/share/dict/american-english was present. But your command line > gave me: > $ echo metaget shared/packages-wordlist owners | debconf-communicate > debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open > /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission non accordée > 10 shared/packages-wordlist doesn't exist
Thanks for the info, that is the behavior I expected. > And finally I just removed wamerican (as I have no use for it) and > the issue is gone. Some programs may ask for a basic plain wordlist, but should pull one through dependencies. If that was a random corruption, you can safely reinstall wamerican if desired. Everything should then work properly, seems not a wamerican problem. I'd expect that running /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl and configuring later should have also put the system in a consistent state. Since this problem may have affected other templates, keep this in mind in case you need it because of problems with other debconf questions. I am still surprised that this only affected wordlists. > This bug is fixed for me, although I don't really understand how I > got a debconf database corruption. /var is definitely not full. A nearly full /var partition has been suggested as a possible reason, but is clear that is not the only one. Soren also had plenty of space under /var. The most frequent reason for debconf database corruption when running debconf seems fixed in debconf 1.5.0 (#198297), but may be other still unknown reasons are flying around. For completeness, I was doing some checks in a chroot about which exact changes in debconf database are needed to trigger the error. Starting with wamerican and wbritish installed I needed to do, without removing any of both wordlists (done in a chroot, do not try in a real system), unregister shared/packages-wordlist as wamerican unregister shared/packages-wordlist as wbritish unregister dictionaries-common/default-wordlist as dictionaries-common Every other combination did not trigger the error. a) If dictionaries-common/default-wordlist is set, missing owners for shared/packages-wordlist will not cause the error, only that question may be re-asked on wamerican/wbritish update. b) If shared/packages-wordlist owners are correct, but dictionaries-common/default-wordlist is missing, it will be handled as first install for class and a locale based guess be tried. Above three changes happening as resut of legitimate package actions not related to package removal seems unlikely, so seems indeed some sort of corruption of unknown origin. If nobody else reproduces this problem, I will soon close this bug report. Thanks, Bertrand and Soren for your help. -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
