[Popcon-developers] Bug#529393: More info

[Guillem Jover]

reassign 529393 popularity-contest
found 529393 1.47
thanks

Hi,

On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 20:07:53 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> With my particular issue:
> 
> > Preconfiguring packages ...
> > dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please
> > use '--print-architecture' instead.
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> 
> was due to dpkg being run without the PATH environment variable
> being set (I was running in a chroot).
> 
> This bug could be fixed if dpkg checked the environment for the  PATH
> variable and it if is empty, setting it to some sensible default.

What you are seeing is unrelated to the filed bug report, as
“dpkg --print-installation-architecture” exits with 0, please don't
mix issues. dpkg already checks for a usable PATH in some operations,
and should have given a proper error message in that case anyway.

If you can reproduce this other issue, please file a bug report against
dpkg including apt and dpkg log files, so that we can track it down.
My guess is that the problem is somewhere else though.

regards,
guillem