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[Question #77333]: "debconf-show packagename" shows nothing

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From: grog808 <question77333@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:22:52 -0000
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New question #77333 on Ubuntu:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/77333

My fresh install (and recent update via update-manager) failed to correctly populate my xorg.conf.  In the comments for xorg.conf, there is mention of dexconf.  I issued "debconf-show packagename" to see what was would show up.  I had some password error, so I retried w/ "sudo".  Now there is no error, but nothing at all shows up.  If there is nothing in the database, that would explain why xorg.conf doesn't get populated.

"debconf-show --listdbs" had the same password error, but continued to show: configdb, configdb/config, and configdb/passwords.

So I tried: sudo debconf-show packagename configdb and sudo debconf-show packagename --db=configdb with no results.  No error, just no output.

Is this by design?

Thanks,
Steve

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