package octave tags 681064 unreproducible moreinfo severity 681064 normal thanks
* Santiago Vila <sanv...@unex.es> [2012-07-10 13:23]: > Package: octave > Version: 3.6.2-2 > Severity: serious > > I had a wheezy system which was updated to wheezy last week. > > After "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; apt-get dist-upgrade" today I decided > to install octave and octave-info, then purge octave3.2 and octave3.2-info. > > Now octave does not configure: > > # dpkg --pending --configure > Setting up octave (3.6.2-2) ... > warning: X11 DISPLAY environment variable not set > error: could not find the file or path /usr/share/octave/packages > error: called from: > error: /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 1234, column 5 > error: /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/pkg/pkg.m at line 418, column 16 > error: /usr/share/octave/3.6.2/m/startup/octaverc at line 26, column 1 > > dpkg: error processing octave (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Processing triggers for menu ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > octave I cannot reproduce the problem in my testing system as today. I am hereby downgrading the severity level of this bug report from "serious" to "normal". The following is what I did. First, I put this in /etc/apt/preferences: ################################## Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 550 ################################## I then purged all Octave-related packages from my system and issued the commands: aptitude update aptitude install octave3.2 aptitude install octave aptitude purge octave3.2 and everything went fine. I suspect that your system has some file left over from another package that may be causing the problem. If this is true, then what you are reporting is a real bug that must be fixed, but it is perhaps not caused by the octave package. Unless you provide us with a precise way to reproduce the problem, we will keep the severity level of this report below the release-critical threshold. Best, Rafael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org