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

[Steve Langasek]

On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 05:48:18PM -0000, jackel wrote:
> i'd like to know if what i experienced on 3 different updates in the
> last 2 days,  is this bug or if something else needs to be reported?

Yes, this is exactly the same bug.

> ...i think the update should open the terminal window automatically when
> it gets to that point (Preparing libc6?), as a new user will not know
> enough to open the "show details" window to reveal the prompt and
> continue.

I quite agree, and I understand there's meant to be code already here to do
that, which seems to be failing.

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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

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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