[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#340975: cupsys: gets stuck in debconf, in postinst

[Beiad Dalton]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.1.99.b1.r4841-1
Severity: important

# ps waxu
root     32126  1.1  2.1  66964 22244 ?        Sl+  06:16   0:02 aptitude
root     32189  0.0  0.6   9476  6900 ?        S+   06:16   0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 14 --configure cupsys cupsys-driver-gutenprint libartsc0 libartsc0-dev
root     32190  0.1  0.8  11972  8920 ?        S+   06:16   0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/cupsys.postinst configure 1.1.99.b1.r4841-1
root     32196  0.0  0.1   3928  1448 ?        S+   06:16   0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/cupsys.config configure 1.1.99.b1.r4841-1
root     32223  0.0  0.1   4180  1340 ?        S+   06:17   0:00 whiptail --backtitle Debian Configuration --title Configuring cupsys --output-fd 11 --nocancel --msgbox The wrong value is found in the input.??The error occurred while parsing the port number or the host name.??Please correct it. 11 71

Stuck here until I kill the postinst.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (100, 'unstable'), (99, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.local
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages cupsys depends on:
ii  adduser                3.79              Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.4.59            Debian configuration management sy
ii  gs-esp                 8.15.1.dfsg.1-1   The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  libc6                  2.3.5-8           GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcupsimage2          1.1.99.b1.r4841-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libcupsys2             1.1.99.b1.r4841-1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls12            1.2.9-2           the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libpam0g               0.79-3            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpaper1              1.1.14-3          Library for handling paper charact
ii  libslp1                1.2.1-3           OpenSLP libraries
ii  patch                  2.5.9-2           Apply a diff file to an original
ii  perl-modules           5.8.7-8           Core Perl modules
ii  procps                 1:3.2.6-2         /proc file system utilities
ii  xpdf-utils             3.01-2            Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3-8         compression library - runtime

Versions of packages cupsys recommends:
pn  cupsys-client           <none>           (no description available)
ii  foomatic-filters        3.0.2-20050720-1 linuxprinting.org printer support 
ii  smbclient               3.0.20b-2+b1     a LanManager-like simple client fo

-- debconf information:
  cupsys/raw-print: true
* cupsys/browse: true
* cupsys/ports: /var/run/cups/cups.sock
  cupsys/backend: ipp, lpd, parallel, socket, usb
  cupsys/portserror: