Hi,
The line invoking ucf in the postinst looks like that:
test -f /usr/bin/ucf && ucf ${CONFFILE_NEW} ${CONFFILE} </dev/tty
Now, I don't know why you would want to get it read from /dev/tty, as
far as I can tell, ucf does not read anything from stdin, so this is
pretty redundant. However, once I removed this redirect, it was still
hanging. Eventually I traced the problem to the fact that ucf uses
debconf, I can't fully understand what's happening there, but it
turned out that moving db_stop, placing it *after* ucf invocation
fixes the problem. I guess that once we stop debconf in the script
(with db_stop) and then ucf tries to start it up again, something goes
wrong with file descriptors. The candidate patch which fixes the issue
is attached, however I'm reluctant to declare it a proper fix without
understanding what's really going on, hence I'm not tagging it.
Cheers.
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Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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--- dibbler-0.7.1.orig/debian/dibbler-client.postinst 2008-08-11 02:35:02.000000000 +0100
+++ dibbler-0.7.1/debian/dibbler-client.postinst 2008-08-11 02:38:18.000000000 +0100
@@ -94,10 +94,10 @@
echo "" >> ${CONFFILE_NEW}
done
-db_stop
-
# register this config
-test -f /usr/bin/ucf && ucf ${CONFFILE_NEW} ${CONFFILE} </dev/tty
+test -x /usr/bin/ucf && ucf ${CONFFILE_NEW} ${CONFFILE}
+
+db_stop
# Start service if necessary
if [ $START == "true" ]; then
