[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#642903: further information

Johannes Schauer j.schauer at email.de
Tue Jun 19 17:08:47 UTC 2012


Hi,

On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:04:24PM -0500, David Loyall wrote:
> The problem stems from this stanza in the post-installation script.
> 
>         if [ -n "$2" ] && dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt "0.10"
>         then
>                 # After 0.10 nodm/xinit is not needed anymore
>                 db_unregister nodm/xinit
>         fi
> 
> When I added an 'echo' in front of db_unregister, everything worked fine.

Since this bugreport is open for nearly a year, here is another piece of
information for everybody who needs a quick fix (I also just ran into
that one):

The file you have to edit is

/var/lib/dpkg/info/nodm.config

And the "echo db_unregister nodm/xinit" should be around line 20.

cheers, josch





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