[Scratchbox-users] Preconfigure hang installing scratchbox 1.0.6 on Debian

[Matt Hoosier]

On 11/23/06, Riku Voipio <nchip at kos.to> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 09:22:28AM -0500, Jim Heck wrote:
> > It was a fresh install.  That machine had never had scratchbox before,
> > as I am just starting to get involved with it.  There is another
> > developer here experiencing the same problem, but he is doing an upgrade
> > from 1.0.5.  His synaptic hangs in the same preconfig stage, and I'm
> > pretty sure he's using Etch as well.
>
> There is probably some bug in postinst scripts then. If you can find
> out what is causing it, it would be very helpfull for us.

One approach might be to hack the
/var/lib/dpkg/info/packagename.postinst script to put "set -x" at the
very beginning, then manually invoke it ("sh packagename.postinst
preconfig") to see where the hang is.

>
> > Any suggestions for what I might try for a workaround?
>
> Installing from tarballs.
>
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