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

[Colin Watson]

There is no mechanism for libc to do this, and I doubt we'd be
interested in adding such a thing to debconf; it's in too generic a
position to be able to have any remote idea whether a timeout is safe.

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

Bug description:
  TEST CASE:
  - there is no trivial way to reproduce this as it only happens if in the middle of the upgrade libgtk2-perl becomes unavailable
  - a regression test is sufficient

  Regression Potential: 
  - low, the worst that can happen is that the terminal gets expanded during the upgrade when this is not needed

  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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