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

[Steve Langasek]

** Also affects: update-manager (Ubuntu Precise)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: update-manager (Ubuntu Quantal)
   Importance: High
     Assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations)
       Status: Confirmed

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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:
  Confirmed
Status in “update-manager” source package in Precise:
  New
Status in “update-manager” source package in Quantal:
  Confirmed

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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