Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-20 Thread Carlo U. Segre
Actually, no. The regular whiptail and slang1 are installed. However, I removed whiptail and modconf and then reinstalled them and now the proper behavior is present. I am not sure what might have happened here except that in the installation using a current woody CD, the user who initially set

Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-20 Thread Joey Hess
Carlo U. Segre wrote: > whiptail: error while loading shared libraries: libslang.so.1-UTF8: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > > Perhaps a dependency is wrong but I don't understand the "-UTF8" on my > other working machines there is no such library. Seems to me you may

Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:55:41AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:08:27PM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > > # dpkg-recnfigure debconf > > Just returns to the prompt with no other output. > > That's because you have debconf configured not to ask questions again > once you'

Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 06:08:27PM -0600, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > # dpkg-recnfigure debconf > Just returns to the prompt with no other output. That's because you have debconf configured not to ask questions again once you've answered them, or it's set to non-interactive. > From the debconf manu

RE: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-19 Thread Carlo U. Segre
-Josh > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Carlo U. Segre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:26 PM > > To: Debian Users List > > Subject: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior > > > > > > > > Hello

Re: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-19 Thread Joey Hess
Narins, Josh wrote: > Sounds like your debconf priority got set to "critical" ? Nope, he said that dpkg-reconfigure debconf asked nothing. dpkg-reconfigure temporarily forces the priority to low so you should alawys see all questions when running it. I asked for a DEBCONF_DEBUG log in private mail

RE: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-19 Thread Narins, Josh
me thing. hth, -Josh > -Original Message- > From: Carlo U. Segre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:26 PM > To: Debian Users List > Subject: debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior > > > > Hello: > > I have just encountered a pro

debconf and dpkg-reconfigure behavior

2003-02-18 Thread Carlo U. Segre
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 ad