On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 07:32:31PM +0200, Ingvaldur Sigurjonsson wrote: > I'm beginning to have major problems with updating new packages for > testing. > > I'm having problem with amongst others man-db. I'm having similar problems > with xserver-xfree86, xserver-common and more. > > For troubleshooting purposes I added 'set -x' but It didn't help me very > much. Hope anyone can tell me how to resolve from these problems. > > Output from: > Setting up man-db (2.3.19-6) ... > + '[' configure = configure ']' > + oldcatdir=/var/catman > + catdir=/var/cache/man > + maybesetuid=man mandb > + conffile=/etc/manpath.config > + . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule > ++ '[' '!' '' ']' > ++ set -x > ++ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.postinst > configure '' > dpkg: error processing man-db (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 > Errors were encountered while processing: > man-db
If you could try 'DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer dpkg --configure man-db' (probably with the 'set -x' removed), that would be helpful. I don't *think* it's a problem with man-db, but you never know ... what version of debconf do you have installed? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]