This issue also happen with apt-listchange, on every update.
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Update waits indefinitely for user input (on terminal/debconf/conffile prompts)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/67338
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Also Gallery2, libssl, and a good number of other packages cause a wait
for user-prompts do this. I think that it should be given higher
priority. Packages should be marked that they require user input and be
performed (preferrably) last (or first).
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Update waits indefinitely for user input (on
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Needs Info => Confirmed
** Summary changed:
- Update waits indefinitely for user input
+ Update waits indefinitely for user input (on terminal/debconf/conffile
prompts)
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Update waits indefinitely for user input (on terminal/debconf/conffi
The package that caused the dialog was "flashplugin-nonfree" from the
multiverse area. Is there a recommended non-nonfree equivalent for
Edgy? I'd like to try to use the non-proprietary software, but with
young kids, it's hard to live without flash.
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Update waits indefinitely for user input
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/etc/qt3/qt_plugins_3.3rc also asks to be replaced. Not sure which
package is causing the request, the GUI didn't specify. Replacement
appeared to be trivial and this is not a file that I customized from my
Breezy installation.
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Update waits indefinitely for user input
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The flashplayer question came up very early in the process when the
packages were just being prepared for installation. About 2 hours
later, once the installation actually began, the gui prompted for
replacing abcde.conf file while updating the abcde package. In this
case, my abcde.conf needed to
It was the flash-player plug-in. I forgot to write down the exact
package name when it happened, but once the upgrade is finished I will
find it and update the post. It was a GUI screen asking for acceptance
to the licence agreement, so I suppose that was Debconf.
** Tags added: edgy flash
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Thanks for your bugreport.
What package in particular did that? How did it prompt for that input?
Was it debconf (i.e. a gui window asking for confirmation)? Or did it
ask on a terminal window?
Thanks,
Michael
** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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