[Bug 442941] Re: debconf failed to upgrade from 1.5.27ubuntu1 to 1.5.27ubuntu2: exit status 128 - Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66

[Steve Medrick]

Base cause for me was actively setting the root password to be
different from the initial
user password requested by the install wizard. apt was still trying to
use a copy of the
initial password, so variations of sudo su -, plus command line
aptitude calls saved the
day.

I still believe strongly in keeping that root password different and
secure, so I just got
used to the penalty of doing my updates in CLI (which I like anyway)

-steve

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 3:30 AM, Andrew Allcock <ajallcock at yahoo.com> wrote:
> My report of this bug came from when I was using 11.04 Beta. This has
> not occurred to me in the full release but, if it helps, the full
> release is a dual-boot installation and upgraded from 10.10 whereas the
> beta release was an upgrade of a WUBI install.
>
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> Title:
>  debconf failed to upgrade from 1.5.27ubuntu1 to 1.5.27ubuntu2: exit
>  status 128 - Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at
>  /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66
>
> Status in “debconf” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “tzdata” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: debconf
>
>  Failed to report to debconf during first upgrade after installation of
>  9.10 beta. Upgrade failed.
>
>  ProblemType: Package
>  Architecture: amd64
>  Date: Mon Oct  5 09:54:06 2009
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
>  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>  Package: debconf 1.5.27ubuntu2
>  PackageArchitecture: all
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
>  SourcePackage: debconf
>  Title: package debconf 1.5.27ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
>
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Title:
  debconf failed to upgrade from 1.5.27ubuntu1 to 1.5.27ubuntu2: exit
  status 128 - Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at
  /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66

Status in “debconf” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “tzdata” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: debconf

  Failed to report to debconf during first upgrade after installation of
  9.10 beta. Upgrade failed.

  ProblemType: Package
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Oct  5 09:54:06 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: debconf 1.5.27ubuntu2
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
  SourcePackage: debconf
  Title: package debconf 1.5.27ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

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