On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:36:34AM -0400, Jason Lunz wrote: > > When I installed pure-ftpd_0.98.4-1_i386.deb , at the end of the > > install pure-ftpd said "Starting ftp server: pure-ftpd" and nothing > > else happened, i.e. I do not have the prompt, "enter" do not give me > > the prompt.If I do a ps I cans see that perl and debconf are still > > runing. I've killed the processes but my pure-ftp server seems to > > work. I stopped and started pure-ftpd and there is no problem, I don't > > know if it is a bug but it's really minor. > > grr. I was hoping that was just happening to me. > > At that point everything is fine, so you don't need to worry. The hang > is at the end of the postinst, when some debhelper-generated shell calls > "/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd start". The init.d script starts pure-ftpd and > exits successfully, but the postinst goes zombie after that: > > [orr](0) % ps axfw > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND > 29349 pts/4 S 0:01 \_ dpkg -i > /var/debian/standard/pure-ftpd_0.98.4-4_i386.deb > 29366 pts/4 S 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -w > /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/pure-ftpd.postinst config > 29368 pts/4 Z 0:00 \_ [pure-ftpd.posti <defunct>] > > This is weird, because the only thing left in the postinst is: > > [orr](0) % tail /var/lib/dpkg/info/pure-ftpd.postinst > # End automatically added section > # Automatically added by dh_installinit > if [ -e "/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd" ]; then > update-rc.d pure-ftpd defaults >/dev/null > /etc/init.d/pure-ftpd start > fi > # End automatically added section > > > exit 0 > > Does anyone know what could cause this?
Debconf. Redirect the output of the init script to stderr, that is, add >&2. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
