[Bug 979661] Re: oneiric to precise: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome and falls back to Dialog

[Colin Watson]

We've established on IRC that it isn't bug 850264 after all; but there
is definitely an apt bug here, albeit possibly one fixed in precise that
needs to be backported to oneiric.  It wouldn't entirely surprise me if
this had been fixed by the giant unpack/configure ordering
rearrangement.

** Also affects: apt (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  oneiric to precise: debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome and
  falls back to Dialog

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I was doing an upgrade from Oneiric to Precise and the machine hung in
  the process. There was a dialog somewhere in the background that I
  didn't see:

  debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome
  debconf: (Unable to load Gtk -- is libgtk2-perl installed?)
  debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog

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