[SGVLUG] Upgrade problems with Debian apt-get

[John E. Kreznar]

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David Lawyer <dave at lafn.org> writes:

> In answer to another post: I've traced the configuration problem to
> a function call in the postinstall script for netkit-inetd.  It's:
> db_get netkit-inetd/inetd-dos-services
> This call is made but never returns.  What does it do?  What is
> dos-services?  They might be the dos-services for MS DOS that were
> equivalent to the system calls in Linux ??  But why would Linux need
> these unless it's going to do dos emulation?

Suspect a debconf issue.  It may be that the important thing about the
db_get call has nothing to do with inet-dos-services but rather that
it invokes the debconf frontend that was selected during debconf
configuration.  Do man 7 debconf.  Is the selected frontend compatible
with your configuration?

The comments in /var/lib/dpkg/info/debconf.postinst are suggestive.

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