Hello: I have just encountered a problem that I have never seen during the installation of many, many Debian machines. I am mysitified and perhaps someone has a suggestion (probably some thing stupid, of course).
I have been asked to help out with a newly installed machine (Woody) and when I added packages, I noticed that there were no debconf screens or questions for any packages. The command # dpkg-recnfigure debconf # Just returns to the prompt with no other output. From the debconf manual, this should at least ask me the quetions using the Dialog method. I have tried installing all the packages that exist on a working installation and this has no effect. I have tried manually editing the /var/cache/debconf/config.dat file to set options the way I want them for debconf but when I rerun the command above, debconf wipes out all the text I had placed in the file for debconf. The entries now look like: Name: debconf/frontend Template: debconf/frontend Value: Owners: debconf Flags: seen Name: debconf/priority Template: debconf/priority Value: Owners: debconf Flags: seen This is quite mystifying and I really do not know how to get out of this funny state. I have tried to uninstall debconf (using --force-depends) and then reinstalling it to no avail. Help! Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Research, Armour College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498 Fax: 312.567.3494 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iit.edu/~segre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
