[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#836433: Bug#836433: samba: install "hangs", synaptic more details reveals pager prompt

[Mathieu Parent]

Control: reaasign -1 apt-listchanges
Control: found -1 2.85.13+nmu1

2016-09-05 11:34 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>:
> On Mon, 2016-09-05 at 10:21 +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote:
>> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
>>
>> 2016-09-03 6:05 GMT+02:00 F. Eugene Aumson <feaumson at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> > Subject: samba: install "hangs", synaptic more details reveals
>> > pager prompt
>> > Source: samba
>> > Version: 2:4.2.10+dfsg-0+deb8u1
>> > Severity: important
>> >
>> > Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> >
>> > in synaptic package manager, i did "reload", then "mark all
>> > upgrades", then
>> > "apply".
>> >
>> > then i waited.  and waited.  and waited.  synaptic was taking
>> > forever to
>> > "apply changes".  i waited at least 20 minutes, probably 30.
>> >
>> > then i thought "surely something is wrong," so i clicked the "show
>> > more
>> > details" thing in the dialog box, and the install was clearly just
>> > sitting
>> > still.
>> >
>> > eventually i noticed the ":" prompt at the bottom of the "screen",
>> > and
>> > realized that it was sitting in a pager.  i hit 'q' and the install
>> > marched
>> > onward.
>> >
>> > i expected that the install of the package could proceed withouth
>> > manual
>> > intervention
>>
>> Can you give more info? I don't see any invocation of less,more, or
>> pager in samba.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this is too late, but having the list of processes
>> during the problem would have helped.
>
> This (we/I have had a number of reports in various places) is due to
> the very long NEWS entry, that causes the pager to trigger in
> situations that most admins encounter rarely.
>
> As I understand it, actual unattended upgrades went fine, but anything
> that wasn't using the exact right options (just want worked in recent
> experience) got caught out.

Then,it looks like a bug in apt-listchanges.

Eugene, can you confirm that you have apt-listchanges installed?

Regards

-- 
Mathieu Parent