Package: dpkg Version: 1.14.18 Severity: important It's the second time that someone is reporting me such problems, so they are worth investigating IMO.
After some operation, they end up with a system where the status file has a package with a status "install ok triggers-awaited": (sid)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -s debianutils Package: debianutils Essential: yes Status: install ok triggers-awaited Priority: required Section: utils Installed-Size: 276 Maintainer: Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: mips Version: 2.30 Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1) Description: Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian This package provides a number of small utilities which are used primarily by the installation scripts of Debian packages, although you may use them directly. . The specific utilities included are: installkernel mkboot run-parts savelog sensible-browser sensible-editor sensible-pager tempfile which. Triggers-Awaited: man-db But the corresponding package has no triggers-pending: (sid)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -s man-db Package: man-db Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: doc Installed-Size: 2816 Maintainer: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: mips Version: 2.5.2-1 Replaces: man, manpages-de (<< 0.5-4), nlsutils Provides: man, man-browser Depends: groff-base (>= 1.17.2-2), bsdmainutils, debconf (>= 1.2.0) | debconf-2.0, dpkg (>= 1.9.0), libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libgdbm3, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Suggests: groff, less, www-browser Conflicts: man, suidmanager (<< 0.50) Conffiles: /etc/cron.weekly/man-db abb6867338adafff84d4474adf36bbc1 /etc/manpath.config 220ffd7853c7c0c7fb71e6c25d15ab97 /etc/cron.daily/man-db f0ee460b382f31d76813da3c68d5b7e5 Description: on-line manual pager This package provides the man command, the primary way of examining the on-line help files (manual pages). Other utilities provided include the whatis and apropos commands for searching the manual page database, the manpath utility for determining the manual page search path, and the maintenance utilities mandb, catman and zsoelim. man-db uses the groff suite of programs to format and display the manual pages. "dpkg --configure debianutils" will fail but not "dpkg --configure -a" (it simply skips the package presumably because it's not in a state where it can be configured). Here's the log given to me by weasel: [sid] casals:/# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: cpp cpp-3.4 cpp-4.3 devscripts file g++ g++-4.3 gcc gcc-3.4 gcc-3.4-base gcc-4.3 gcc-4.3-base libcurl3 libgcc1 libgcj-bc libgcj-common libgcj9-jar libgd2-noxpm libgd2-noxpm-dev libgfortran3 libgomp1 libkpathsea4 libmagic1 libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libncursesw5 libncursesw5-dev libpango1.0-common libpoppler3 libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.3-dev linux-headers-2.6.25-2-4kc-malta linux-headers-2.6.25-2-5kc-malta linux-headers-2.6.25-2-all linux-headers-2.6.25-2-all-mips linux-headers-2.6.25-2-common linux-headers-2.6.25-2-r4k-ip22 linux-headers-2.6.25-2-r5k-ip32 linux-headers-2.6.25-2-sb1-bcm91250a linux-headers-2.6.25-2-sb1a-bcm91480b linux-libc-dev manpages ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term python-support texlive-base-bin texlive-doc-base wget 49 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/39.4MB of archives. After this operation, 20.5kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Extracting templates from packages: 100% dpkg: error processing debianutils (--configure): package debianutils is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `triggers-awaited') Errors were encountered while processing: debianutils E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [sid] casals:/# dpkg --configure -a [sid] casals:/# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: cpp cpp-3.4 cpp-4.3 devscripts file g++ g++-4.3 gcc gcc-3.4 gcc-3.4-base gcc-4.3 gcc-4.3-base libcurl3 libgcc1 libgcj-bc libgcj-common libgcj9-jar libgd2-noxpm libgd2-noxpm-dev libgfortran3 libgomp1 libkpathsea4 libmagic1 libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libncursesw5 libncursesw5-dev libpango1.0-common libpoppler3 libstdc++6 libstdc++6-4.3-dev linux-headers-2.6.25-2-4kc-malta linux-headers-2.6.25-2-5kc-malta linux-headers-2.6.25-2-all linux-headers-2.6.25-2-all-mips linux-headers-2.6.25-2-common linux-headers-2.6.25-2-r4k-ip22 linux-headers-2.6.25-2-r5k-ip32 linux-headers-2.6.25-2-sb1-bcm91250a linux-headers-2.6.25-2-sb1a-bcm91480b linux-libc-dev manpages ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurses-term python-support texlive-base-bin texlive-doc-base wget 49 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/39.4MB of archives. After this operation, 20.5kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Extracting templates from packages: 100% dpkg: error processing debianutils (--configure): package debianutils is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `triggers-awaited') Errors were encountered while processing: debianutils E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The work-around to get out of this situation is to dpkg -i debianutils_*.deb again to force a come-back to status unpacked and let dpkg process trigger correctly this time. Funnily dpkg --audit recommends to run dpkg --configure --pending: (sid)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -C The following packages are awaiting processing of triggers that they have activated in other packages. This processing can be requested using dselect or dpkg --configure --pending (or dpkg --triggers-only): debianutils Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
