severity 574199 normal retitle 574199 ltsp-client-core: does not display reason for failed install block 574199 by 367497 block 574199 by 398707 thanks
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:01:24AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Selecting previously deselected package ltsp-client-core. > > (Reading database ... 13494 files and directories currently installed.) > > Unpacking ltsp-client-core (from .../ltsp-client-core_5.2-1_amd64.deb) ... > > dpkg: error processing > > /var/cache/apt/archives/ltsp-client-core_5.2-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): > > subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/ltsp-client-core_5.2-1_amd64.deb > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > The full build log is available from: > http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2010/03/16/ltsp-client-core.log > > It is reproducible by installing your package in a clean chroot, using > the debconf Noninteractive frontend, and priority: critical. thanks for the report... we've been here before. :) this seems to be a repeat of: http://bugs.debian.org/398630 essentially, ltsp-client-core shouldn't be installed on a normal system, and checks for the presence of /etc/ltsp_chroot, and errors out if it doesn't find it (which is created by ltsp-build-client). it does issue an error through debconf at priority critical, though the noninteractive debconf frontend still seems to silently discard error messages (or email when possible, but in this case, a chroot, it's often not possible): http://bugs.debian.org/367497 http://bugs.debian.org/398707 i guess i can manually output an error message using echo (with mangled file descriptors due to the running debconf interface) in the next ltsp upload, but it seems a little redundant to duplicate the message in two places. i'd almost rather not work around it that way... live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
