I am having a problem configuring the foomatic-filters package when installing it.
It seems that the ucf script is hanging on the read of the response to the question of what to do with the config file. To start to figure out what is going on, I modified the ucf script in /usr/bin/ with an echo just above and just below the line that reads the response to the queries presented. The line that does the reading is: read -e ANSWER; I also modified the foomatic-filters.postinst script to invoke the ucf script with the verbose and debug options. Original line was: ucf --three-way $tempfile $FILTERCONF changed to: ucf -v -d 2 --three-way $tempfile $FILTERCONF When executing the /var/lib/dpkg/info/foomatic-filters.postinst script, I get the following output: ucf: The Debug value is 2 ucf: The new file is /tmp/fileB1FBhE ucf: The Destination file is /etc/foomatic/filter.conf ucf: The Source directory is /tmp ucf: The State directory is /var/lib/ucf The hash file exists egrep [[:space:]]/etc/foomatic/filter.conf$ /var/lib/ucf/hashfile The new start file is `/tmp/fileB1FBhE\' The destination is `/etc/foomatic/filter.nf\' The history is kept under \'/tmp\' The file may be cached at \'/var/lib/ucf/cache/:etc:foomatic:filter.conf\' The destination file exists, and has md5sum: 30785e8a78643d070ac2e15517549dfe /etc/foomatic/filter.conf The old md5sum does not exist. The new file exists, and has md5sum: b6e983525b10e4d913bb32caac029902 /tmp/fileB1FBhE Historical md5sums are not available No match found, we shall ask. Configuration file `/etc/foomatic/filter.conf' ==> File on system created by you or by a script. ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer. What would you like to do about it ? Your options are: Y or I : install the package maintainer's version N or O : keep your currently-installed version D : show the differences between the versions Z : start a new shell to examine the situation The default action is to keep your current version. *** filter.conf (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? about to read answer...d <---- echo 'about to read answer...' added by me <---- press enter <---- press enter <---- press Ctl-C [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ Output of 'apt-show-versions foomatic-filters' : foomatic-filters/testing uptodate 3.0.0-20031207-1 Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Lou -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]