debconf borks package manager when pressing 'cancel'
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| debconf (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: debconf
Today, i ran update manager to update my system. Debconf came up because apparantly one of the linux updates wanted to see what i wanted to do in regards to menu.lst, it gave me some options, i clicked 'show 3 way difference' and then i wanted to go back. I had two choices, cancel, and forward. Now these buttons are HORRIBLY labeled, as cancel to me means go back....and forward makes me think that selecting that will actually go forward with the 3 way merge which I might of not wanted to do.
anyway, i pressed cancel, it exited debconf, and left that package unconfigured, breaking one of the linux packages, which breaks like 4 more packages cause they all depend on that one, and just creating a huge mess.
Cancel should NOT exit debconf, it should have no option to exit debconf, it should force the user to make a decision.
and the buttons should also be labeled something different. Instead of cancel and forward,, have a 'go back' button or something.
| Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote | #1 |
Thanks for your report. This is also bug 325631.
For what it's worth, it doesn't break the package manager at all - any package management frontend worth its salt can recover easily, or you can run 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' from a terminal.