[Bug 962393] Re: Installation loops in db-config-common when ran from software-center

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

Maybe the problem is that software-center spawns debconf-communicate
with the user id instead of as root:

alkisg    7368  1.7  0.5  65404 23364 pts/1    Sl+  07:48   0:00
/usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/debconf-communicate

I tried making a debconf-communicate wrapper, to force running it as root instead, and everything worked fine again:
$ cat /usr/bin/debconf-communicate
#!/bin/sh
exec sudo -E /usr/bin/debconf-communicate.real "$@"

Of course to avoid sudo prompts, I've setup sudoers to not require a
password for debconf-communicate.real for my user id.

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  Installation loops in db-config-common when ran from software-center

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