Bug#287794: hylafax-server: new install -- infinite loop in configure
Rupa Schomaker
Version: 1:4.2.0-16
Severity: important
Did a new (fresh) install of hylafax. During configure the modem
configuration script just repeated over and over again.
killing the script and then letting dpkg auto-retry the configure
resulted in a good install (it did some magic with the cache file and
didn't actually rerun the hylafax config script).
Modem is on ttyS0. It is a USR Courier v.Everything and was configured
correctly.
root 6639 6491 0 18:35 pts/3 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --configure hylafax-client mime-codecs hylafax-server metamail hylafax-doc
root 6702 6639 0 18:35 pts/3 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/hylafax-server.postinst configure
root 6711 6702 0 18:35 pts/3 00:00:00 /bin/sh -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/hylafax-server.postinst configure
root 6730 6711 0 18:35 pts/3 00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/faxsetup -server
root 27071 6730 0 19:25 pts/3 00:00:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/faxaddmodem
I killed faxsetup and faxaddmodem. the postinst propogated the error up
to dpkg which retried. the postinst then did not try to rerun
faxsetup.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (300, 'unstable'), (120, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages hylafax-server depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.41 Debian configuration management sy
ii gs 8.01-5 Transitional package
ii gs-esp [gs] 7.07.1-9 The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii gs-gpl [gs] 8.01-5 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int
ii hylafax-client 1:4.2.0-16 Flexible client/server fax softwar
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-6 GCC support library
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtiff-tools 3.6.1-4 TIFF manipulation and conversion t
ii libtiff4 3.6.1-4 Tag Image File Format library
ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4 A simple mail user agent
ii mime-codecs 7.19-2 Fast Quoted-Printable and BASE64 M
ii psmisc 21.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii sed 4.1.2-8 The GNU sed stream editor
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
hylafax-server/configure_note:
hylafax-server/start_now: true
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Giuseppe Sacco
> Package: hylafax-server
> Version: 1:4.2.0-16
> Severity: important
>
> Did a new (fresh) install of hylafax. During configure the modem
> configuration script just repeated over and over again.
So faxaddmodem was automatically restarting? What was its output? did it
print ane error?
Thanks,
Giuseppe
Giuseppe Sacco
> Version: 1:4.2.0-16
> Severity: important
>
> Did a new (fresh) install of hylafax. During configure the modem
> configuration script just repeated over and over again.
I managed to reproduce the problem: it cycle whenever the faxaddmodem is
called and fails.
I am working on it.
Giuseppe