Package: tasksel Version: 2.17 Severity: important Bug #283923 describes a situation where the install of the desktop task apparently fails : the aptitude runs finishes with a non zero error code, because of some dpkg errors happening during the install. See the base-config.log files I posted in #283923.
The desktop task currently fails for the following languages: German, Italian, Spanish. I had it fails also on Norwegian Nynorsk. I suspect it fails on some and not on others because of external parameters such as a different set of installed packages. Indeed, this seems to be some nasty bug when packages involved in a circular dependency are installed during different dpkg runs. Again, see #283923 Please find at the end of this mail an IRC log between Chris Halls and myself about this problem. He suggests the bug may be related to #172339. As I'm not sure this bug will be fixed in time for sarge, if we don't want the desktop task to be broken for some languages, I suggest removing the installation of myspell-xx from all languages tasks...:-( (the task install does not really fails, by the way...all packages seem to be properly installed....but the user is given the impression that something bad happened...and the log shows something bad indeed) --- Log opened mar dÃc 07 10:15:18 2004 10:15 -!- Irssi: Starting query in oftc with haggai 10:15 <bubulle> ping 10:16 <haggai> pong 10:16 <bubulle> hello, can I grab you some minutes? 10:16 <haggai> hi, yes go ahead 10:16 <bubulle> about #283923 10:17 <haggai> yes. Any ideas? 10:17 <bubulle> not really indeed...it seems to happen on some languages 10:17 <bubulle> indeed as I mentioned a few mins ago, it happens while configuring myspell-xx packages 10:18 <haggai> the output that you posted did not seem to include any error messages 10:18 <bubulle> I just had it last night for Spanish 10:20 <bubulle> and I just reproduced it for Italian a few mins ago 10:20 <haggai> can you send me the complete install log, instead of the edited version? 10:21 <bubulle> sure 10:23 <bubulle> it will be crowded with ANSI stuff because this is /var/log/base-config.log 10:23 <haggai> ok 10:23 <bubulle> but the output of packages install and configuration is readable 10:23 <bubulle> sent 10:25 <bubulle> indeed Italian and Spanish are the only ones which have a myspell-xx package installed by tasksel 10:26 <bubulle> the myspell-en-gb or myspell-en-us ones are not installed, it seems 10:26 <bubulle> I wonder if the bugs should be reassigned to openoffice.org-dictionaries --- Log closed mar dÃc 07 10:32:24 2004 --- Log opened mar dÃc 07 13:36:58 2004 13:36 <haggai> ok, back and I've looked at your 13:36 <haggai> log 13:37 <bubulle> so, did you get more ideas? 13:37 <haggai> it isn't a myspell problem becuase a) myspell doesn't depend on OOo and b) myspell packages are installed by other tasks 13:37 <haggai> french: myspell-fr-gut 13:37 <haggai> german: myspell-de-de 13:37 <haggai> for example 13:38 <haggai> now, are you installing the italian task but no desktop task? 13:38 <bubulle> No, I'm installing the desktop task as well 13:38 <bubulle> it is supposed to install the italian, italian-desktop and desktop tasks 13:38 <haggai> oh,ok 13:39 <haggai> so, openoffice.org-bin is pulled by the desktop task 13:39 <bubulle> yeah 13:41 <haggai> I think this is probably bug#172339 13:43 <bubulle> this may be possible...however, be aware that tasksel uses aptitude for installing tasks (I think it calls "aptitude install <task>" 13:43 <haggai> and..? 13:43 <bubulle> and I don't know....:-) 13:44 <haggai> I see the last comment was from mdz and I happen to be in the same building as him 13:44 <haggai> I'll go and talk to him 13:44 <bubulle> good idea, probably 13:45 <bubulle> this is mostly why I bugged you today about this, knowing you all are in the same place..:-) --- Log closed mar dÃc 07 13:50:24 2004 --- Log opened mar dÃc 07 13:50:57 2004 13:50 <haggai> :) he seems to have disappeared 13:51 <bubulle> lunch, maybe? :-) 13:51 <haggai> 10:11 -!- mdz [EMAIL PROTECTED] has quit [Read error: 104 (Connection 13:51 <haggai> reset by peer)] 13:51 <haggai> yeah, maybe --- Log closed mar dÃc 07 13:57:24 2004 --- Log opened mar dÃc 07 14:28:52 2004 14:28 <bubulle> I seem to get a similar problem with Japanese installs...but completely different packages 14:29 <bubulle> q! 14:29 <bubulle> oops 14:29 <haggai> heh 14:33 <bubulle> I have a 89k gzipped logfile with the problem...do you think it's worth sending it to #283923? 14:36 <bubulle> This also happens during a dependency cycle : gs>gs-gpl>gs-common>gs 14:38 <haggai> I don't think its worth sending the complete log 14:38 <haggai> just the log of that particular apt operation should do 14:38 <bubulle> moreover, it's barely unreadable --- Log closed mar dÃc 07 14:44:25 2004 --- Log opened mar dÃc 07 14:48:05 2004 14:48 <bubulle> In the case I reported as 283923, do you know if there's a dependency cycle? 14:51 <bubulle> also, I forgot to mention that *no* package is left in an unconfigured stage 14:51 <bubulle> s/stage/state 14:52 <bubulle> however, aptitude stops and on an exit error code --- Log closed mar dÃc 07 14:58:25 2004 --- Log opened mar dÃc 07 17:22:28 2004 17:22 <haggai> I have just heard that mdz is ill 17:22 <haggai> which is why I haven't seen him all day... --- Log closed mar dÃc 07 17:28:25 2004 -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686 Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8) Versions of packages tasksel depends on: ii aptitude 0.2.15.8-1 terminal-based apt frontend ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.41 Debian configuration management sy ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.01-17 Using libc functions for internati -- debconf information excluded
