[Bug 876069] Re: package libgladeui-1-11 3.8.0-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libgladeui-1-11 is already installed and configured

2011-10-17 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 876047 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876047 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 876047 package libakonadi-kde4 4:4.6.5-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libakonadi-kde4 is already installed and configured -- You

[Bug 876073] Re: package shared-mime-info 0.90-1ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package shared-mime-info is already installed and configured

2011-10-17 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 876047 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876047 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 876047 package libakonadi-kde4 4:4.6.5-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libakonadi-kde4 is already installed and configured -- You

[Bug 876053] Re: package dpkg-dev 1.16.0~ubuntu7.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package dpkg-dev is already installed and configured

2011-10-17 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 876047 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876047 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 876047 package libakonadi-kde4 4:4.6.5-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libakonadi-kde4 is already installed and configured -- You

[Bug 876063] Re: package wget 1.12-2.1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package wget is already installed and configured

2011-10-17 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 876047 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/876047 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 876047 package libakonadi-kde4 4:4.6.5-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libakonadi-kde4 is already installed and configured -- You

[Bug 876047] Re: package libakonadi-kde4 4:4.6.5-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libakonadi-kde4 is already installed and configured

2011-10-17 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. But please do not file multiple bugs at the same time, the root cause is usually the same and a single bug is more than enough. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular

[Bug 875944] Re: package xfburn 0.4.3-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package xfburn is already installed and configured

2011-10-17 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The precise error is the one below. Can you show us the output of sudo ls -al /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/stock/media/ ? Does the error persist if you retry the upgrade ? (with sudo apt-get install xfburn) Unpacking replacement xfburn ... dpkg: error processing

[Bug 876233] Re: package python-lazr.uri 1.0.2-3build1 failed to install/upgrade: package python-lazr.uri is already installed and configured

2011-10-17 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Please don't file several bugs at the same time, they are likely all the same underlying problem. In your case, it looks like the python package failed to configure. But your log doesn't show the part where python fails to configure so there's nothing we can do. If you can provide more

[Bug 874790] Re: package base-files 5.0.0ubuntu28 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package base-files is already installed and configured

2011-10-16 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Ok, reassigning to sshfs then because I don't see why root should not have the right to stat a file even if remote mounted ** Package changed: dpkg (Ubuntu) = sshfs-fuse (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 874030] Re: package libc6 2.13-0ubuntu13 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libc6 is already installed and configured

2011-10-16 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The log says: Preparing to replace libc6 2.13-0ubuntu13 (using .../libc6_2.13-20ubuntu5_i386.deb) ... So you upgraded from 2.13-0ubuntu13 to 2.13-20ubuntu5. There's no way that libc-2.12.1.so was a packaged file... at least not coming from the libc6 package in version 2.13! In any case, it's

[Bug 874974] Re: package groff-base 1.21-5 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package groff-base is already installed and configured

2011-10-16 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 874916] Re: package wine1.3-gecko 1.3.0-0ubuntu1~ppa1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package wine1.3-gecko is already installed and configured

2011-10-16 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 875496] Re: package libwebkitgtk-1.0-common 1.3.13-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libwebkitgtk-1.0-common is already installed and configured

2011-10-16 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 875488 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/875488 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 875488 package rtkit 0.9-2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package rtkit is already installed and configured -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 875466] Re: Lots of packages shipping with broken md5sums

2011-10-16 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
It's strange indeed, but it's not the fault of dpkg. dpkg is not generating the md5sums files. I guess the problem is related to pkgbinarymangler. IIRC it shortens the changelog.Debian.gz files, and optimizes .png file, and other operations like this. ** Also affects: pkgbinarymangler (Ubuntu)

[Bug 875022] Re: package libxfixes3 1:4.0.5-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libxfixes3 is already installed and configured

2011-10-16 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I'm afraid the log doesn't show the error that resulted in the problem. Without further information on what happened, there's not much we can do. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 875624] Re: package libreoffice-core 1:3.4.3-3ubuntu2~natty1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libreoffice-core is already installed and configured

2011-10-16 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Reassigning to python-gnomeapplet due to this error: Removing python-gnomeapplet ... Segmentation fault (core dumped) dpkg: error processing python-gnomeapplet (--remove): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 139 ** Package changed: dpkg (Ubuntu) =

[Bug 875488] Re: package rtkit 0.9-2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package rtkit is already installed and configured

2011-10-16 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 875516] Re: package debianutils 3.4.3ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package debianutils is already installed and configured

2011-10-16 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
It looks like your /var/lib/dpkg/available is corrupted. Run sudo dpkg --clear-avail and it should fix your problem. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 875830] Re: package python-twisted-names 10.1.0-1build2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package python-twisted-names is already installed and configured

2011-10-16 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
What program did you use to do the upgrade ? (Reassigning to apt in the mean time) The ordering of the upgrade of the perl package was really bad... it unpacked first perl-modules and perl almost together but perl-base much later, leaving perl completely broken during a large window and resulting

[Bug 874717] Re: package apt-utils 0.8.13.2ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package apt-utils is already installed and configured

2011-10-15 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The error is really a hardware problem or something similar, it's not a bug in dpkg. Input/output error is just an error that comes back from the hardware. Unpacking replacement apt-utils ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute old post-removal script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/apt-utils.postrm):

[Bug 874562] Re: package wine1.3 1.3.15-0ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package wine1.3 is already installed and configured

2011-10-15 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 874358] Re: package chromium-browser 14.0.835.202~r103287-0ubuntu0.11.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package chromium-browser is already installed and configured

2011-10-15 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 874752] Re: package libgtk2.0-cil 2.12.10-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libgtk2.0-cil is already installed and configured

2011-10-15 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This error is really weird. dpkg-deb has been called hundreds of times without problem but here we get a weird linking failure... reassigning to eglibc in case they have an idea but it's probably a glitch that can't really be explained. Unpacking replacement libgtk2.0-cil ... dpkg-deb:

[Bug 874765] Re: package bash 4.2-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package bash is already installed and configured

2011-10-15 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The real error is this one. This should in theory never happen as dpkg creates the required directories before trying to unpack files. Did you remove some files or directories while dpkg was working ? Unpacking replacement bash ... Replaced by files in installed package bash-completion ...

[Bug 874790] Re: package base-files 5.0.0ubuntu28 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package base-files is already installed and configured

2011-10-15 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The real error is the one below and it doesn't make sense to me. Can you show us the output of ls -l /mnt ? Do you use some security module (selinux, smack, etc.) that could refuse the access to /mnt ? Can you show us the output of mount ? Did you have something mounted on /mnt during the install

[Bug 873709] Re: package dpkg 1.16.0~ubuntu7 failed to install/upgrade: unable to create `/usr/share/doc/dpkg/THANKS.gz.dpkg-new' (while processing `./usr/share/doc/dpkg/THANKS.gz'): Invalid argument

2011-10-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I'm afraid this is more a local problem than a real bug in dpkg. Looking at dmesg, there are many errors generated by your hard disk. What filesystem are you using? ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 873738] Re: package stellarium-data 0.10.5-1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package stellarium-data is already installed and configured

2011-10-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 873737 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/873737 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 873737 package dia-common 0.97.1-7build1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package dia-common is already installed and configured -- You received

[Bug 873737] Re: package dia-common 0.97.1-7build1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package dia-common is already installed and configured

2011-10-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 873729] Re: package ttf-opensymbol 2:2.4.3 LibO3.3.4-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package ttf-opensymbol is already installed and configured

2011-10-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The real error is this one. I suggest you get more memory on your computer and/or add some swap. Unpacking libjaxp1.3-java (from .../libjaxp1.3-java_1.3.05-1ubuntu1_all.deb) ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: fork failed: Cannot allocate memory ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)

[Bug 873908] Re: package virtuoso-opensource-6.1-bin 6.1.2 dfsg1-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package virtuoso-opensource-6.1-bin is already installed and configured

2011-10-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 874156] Re: package libqtwebkit4 2.1~really2.0.2-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libqtwebkit4 is already installed and configured

2011-10-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 874140 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874140 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 874140 package libreoffice-common 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libreoffice-common is already installed and configured

[Bug 874155] Re: package libqtwebkit4 2.1~really2.0.2-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libqtwebkit4 is already installed and configured

2011-10-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 874140 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874140 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 874140 package libreoffice-common 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libreoffice-common is already installed and configured

[Bug 874030] Re: package libc6 2.13-0ubuntu13 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libc6 is already installed and configured

2011-10-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
So you fixed the problem and it's not really a dpkg bug. I doubt this copy of the libc was put there by an official package. I'm thus closing this bug. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 874140] Re: package libreoffice-common 1:3.3.3-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libreoffice-common is already installed and configured

2011-10-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 872734] Re: dpkg coredumps if FIGETBSZ ioctl return -ENOTTY

2011-10-13 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
A fix has been committed upstream, see commit 916bdba9095bd361cb2bccd6f566ecffdb206193. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commitdiff;h=916bdba9095bd361cb2bccd6f566ecffdb206193 ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Fix Committed -- You received this bug

[Bug 853679] Re: dselect has an error in the Provides: package multiarch case

2011-10-13 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I guess you're referring to liblcms1 (and not libcms1 which doesn't exist). That packages indeed has a Provides/Conflicts/Replaces on a virtual package liblcms. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 853679] Re: dselect has an error in the Provides: package multiarch case

2011-10-13 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This patch seems to fix the problem for me. I have integrated it in my pu/multiarch/full branch so it will land in dpkg upstream with the rest of the multiarch branch. ** Attachment added: Patch to let dselect ignore conflict via a virtual package between 2 instances of the same package

[Bug 873601] Re: package libxapian22 1.2.4-1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libxapian22 is already installed and configured

2011-10-13 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 872734] Re: dpkg coredumps if FIGETBSZ ioctl return -ENOTTY

2011-10-12 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
It seems to me that the proper fix is rather to not try to sort the list of packages if we don't have any meaningful value in listfile_phys_offs... thus the attached patch. ** Attachment added: Don't try to sort when nothing to sort on

[Bug 872734] Re: dpkg coredumps if FIGETBSZ ioctl return -ENOTTY

2011-10-12 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Triaged ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/872734 Title: dpkg coredumps

Re: [Bug 863675] [NEW] dpkg wrongly claims that a foreign-arch package is disappeared by a removed native-arch package

2011-10-05 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/go/ulule-rh/ ** Patch added: 0001-dpkg-do-not-try-to-drop-files-from-other-packages-in.patch https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/863675/+attachment

[Bug 865581] Re: dpkg does not completely install LibreOffice Daily builds

2011-10-04 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
So I confirm it's not a bug in dpkg, it's the libreoffice package whose postrm script are failing. But the error message mentions files in /opt/ so it's not an official ubuntu package and there's probably not much that we can do. Reassigning to libreoffice anyway. Maybe it's a bug in unopkg. **

[Bug 866783] Re: package util-linux 2.17.2-9.1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package util-linux is already installed and configured

2011-10-04 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 866577 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/866577 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 866577 package mount 2.17.2-9.1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package mount is already installed and configured -- You received this bug

[Bug 866694] Re: package libpam-modules 1.1.2-2ubuntu8.3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libpam-modules is already installed and configured

2011-10-04 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 866577 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/866577 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 866577 package mount 2.17.2-9.1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package mount is already installed and configured -- You received this bug

[Bug 866620] Re: package hostname 3.05ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package hostname is already installed and configured

2011-10-04 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 866577 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/866577 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 866577 package mount 2.17.2-9.1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package mount is already installed and configured -- You received this bug

[Bug 866577] Re: package mount 2.17.2-9.1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package mount is already installed and configured

2011-10-04 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The initial problem is this one: Setting up libpam0g (1.1.3-2ubuntu1) ... Checking for services that may need to be restarted...Checking init scripts... WARNING: init script for samba not found. dpkg: error processing libpam0g (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script

Re: [Bug 865581] [NEW] dpkg does not completely install LibreOffice Daily builds

2011-10-03 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
the error messages that appear before this. This is only a summary of the failures, and we need to see the exact error message. You might be able to to find a more complete log in /var/log/apt/. At this point, it seems unlikely to be a bug in dpkg. status incomplete Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog

[Bug 862963] Re: No emblems in Nautilus 3.2.0

2011-09-30 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Do you have the oneiric version of nautilus-dropbox installed ? Are you on i386 or on amd64 ? Does a rebuild of the package fix the problem for you ? You can learn how to rebuild a package here: http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/15 /howto-to-rebuild-debian-packages/ -- You received this bug

[Bug 573696] Re: dpkg: ../../src/archives.c:763: tarobject: Assertion `r == stab.st_size' failed. Aborted

2011-09-30 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Gary, so drop /usr/lib/python2.6/dist- packages/gwibber/microblog/dispatcher.py and retry. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573696 Title: dpkg: ../../src/archives.c:763: tarobject:

[Bug 573696] Re: dpkg: ../../src/archives.c:763: tarobject: Assertion `r == stab.st_size' failed. Aborted

2011-09-30 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The fix for this has been included in dpkg 1.16.1 upstream. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Committed ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #639229 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=639229 ** Also affects: dpkg (Debian) via

[Bug 855793] Re: Kubuntu 11.10 beta 1: Error upgrading using muon

2011-09-30 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The log in #861827 seems to indicate that it's the postrm of kde- window-manager that we're upgrading from that is hanging... ** Package changed: dpkg (Ubuntu) = kde-workspace (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: kde-workspace (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 862963] Re: No emblems in Nautilus 3.2.0

2011-09-30 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Search no longer, 0.6.8-1 works fine but 0.6.9 from the dropbox repository is probably not compiled for Nautilus 3.2... Please don't file bug against Ubuntu if you're not using the official Ubuntu package. I would suggest to disable the dropbox repository and downgrade to the Ubuntu package. **

[Bug 863199] Re: Update Manager does not update-shows error

2011-09-30 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
You have been given bad advice. They meant sudo dpkg --configure -a or sudo apt-get -f install. But this is not a user support channel... so I'm closing this bug report since it doesn't contain any useful bug. Concerning the dpkg-mainscript-helper: error: couldn't identify the package error

[Bug 860822] Re: package fglrx 2:8.872-0ubuntu1 [modified: usr/lib/fglrx/etc/ati/authatieventsd.sh usr/src/fglrx-8.872/dkms.conf usr/src/fglrx-8.872/libfglrx_ip.a] failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMess

2011-09-27 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Reassigning to fglrx since its preinst script is failing. ** Package changed: dpkg (Ubuntu) = fglrx-installer (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/860822 Title: package fglrx

[Bug 860009] Re: package gconf2-common 2.31.91-0ubuntu3.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package gconf2-common is already installed and configured

2011-09-27 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Please run sudo dpkg --clear-avail and sudo dpkg -P virtualbox-2.2 virtualbox-3.0. It should fix most of your problems. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 859469] Re: dpkg locks during installation

2011-09-26 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Please use --debug=3 (or --debug=13) and resend your log. My guess is that it's not dpkg that gets blocked but one of the maintainer scripts. In which case this bug should be filed against apt and not dpkg. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- You received this bug

[Bug 840423] Re: dpkg assert failure: dpkg: ../../src/filesdb.c:668: findnamenode: Assertion `(*pointerp)-name[0] == '/'' failed.

2011-09-26 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/840423 Title: dpkg assert failure: dpkg: ../../src/filesdb.c:668: findnamenode: Assertion `(*pointerp)-name[0] ==

[Bug 858490] Re: package vlc-data (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive

2011-09-25 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is a file corruption problem and not a bug in dpkg. Do sudo apt- get clean and retry. Unpacking vlc-data (from .../vlc-data_1.0.6-1ubuntu1.8_all.deb) ... dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) dpkg: error processing

[Bug 846871] Re: dropbox crashed with KeyError in __getitem__(): 'content-length'

2011-09-25 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/846871 Title: dropbox crashed with KeyError in __getitem__(): 'content-length' To manage notifications about this bug

[Bug 858724] Re: package nautilus-dropbox 0.6.8-1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 255 zurück

2011-09-25 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is a network problem between you and the Dropbox server at the time of the installation, it fails on purpose in that case as dropbox can't be installed if it can't be downloaded. ** Changed in: nautilus-dropbox (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 858395] Re: Google Voice adapters are not working

2011-09-24 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Input/output error means that there's failing hardware involved, it's not a bug in dpkg, sorry. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 857758] Re: package libpam-modules 1.1.2-2ubuntu8.3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libpam-modules is already installed and configured

2011-09-24 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The error is in pam: Preparing to replace libpam-modules 1.1.2-2ubuntu8.3 (using .../libpam- modules_1.1.3-2ubuntu1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libpam- modules_1.1.3-2ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status

[Bug 850680] Re: package cups 1.4.6-5ubuntu1.4 failed to install/upgrade: Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 10 zurück

2011-09-24 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The fact that several packages are affected does not mean that dpkg is at fault reassigning back to foomatic-filters, one should look what's common between the 3 postinst. ** Package changed: dpkg (Ubuntu) = foomatic-filters (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 855926] Re: package nautilus-dropbox 0.6.8-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

2011-09-22 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Please read the error message, it's not a bug in the package but a problem with your connection to the dropbox servers. When your internet connection works again, sudo dpkg --configure -a will finish the installation of nautilus-dropbox. ** Changed in: nautilus-dropbox (Ubuntu) Status: New

[Bug 855793] Re: Kubuntu 11.10 beta 1: Error upgrading using muon

2011-09-22 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I'm afraid this has been hastily reassigned, there's no data in the bug log to decide where the problem is. There's no proof that dpkg is blocking and I'm quite sure it doesn't. However one of the packages that you are trying to install might well try to interact with you on the terminal and if

[Bug 856681] Re: package libqtgui4 4:4.7.2-0ubuntu6.2 failed to install/upgrade: short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.7.2'

2011-09-22 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
šumski, this article explains that it's a corrupted .deb file and thus an invalid bug report... not that the bug must be reassigned to dpkg and reopened! ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 853247] Re: too long date format in /var/log/dpkg.log

2011-09-19 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I'm sorry, we're not going to change this. This would be an incompatible change for anyone parsing those files, and the benefits are ridiculously small. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 853007] Re: package evolution-exchange 2.28.3-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package evolution-exchange is already installed and configured

2011-09-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
It looks like the one file got corrupted, so it's not a dpkg bug. You might want to run sudo apt-get clean and retry. But you should check your hardware (disk and memory), it might be partly broken. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/evolution- exchange_2.30.3-0ubuntu2_i386.deb

[Bug 852797] Re: package sl-modem-daemon 2.9.11~20100718-2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package sl-modem-daemon is already installed and configured

2011-09-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
It looks like the CD is corrupted. Input/output error is not a dpkg bug but a hardware problem. dpkg-split: error: error reading /cdrom//pool/restricted/s/sl-modem/sl- modem-daemon_2.9.11~20100718-4_amd64.deb: Input/output error dpkg: error processing /cdrom//pool/restricted/s/sl-modem/sl-modem-

[Bug 853221] Re: package nautilus-dropbox (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus script post-removal installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 2

2011-09-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
It's weird, the purge action only does rm -rf /var/lib/dropbox and the log doesn't show any error output by rm... do you still have dropbox running maybe? Can you give us the output of those commands: ps aux|grep dropbox and ls -alR /var/lib/dropbox ? Thank you. -- You received this bug

[Bug 851723] Re: dpkg aborted with malloc failed (-1541383818 bytes): Cannot allocate memory message

2011-09-17 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
As you noted, recent versions of dpkg (= 1.16.0~) are already fixed so marking the bug as such. I nominated it for lucid to see the opinion of release managers but I doubt it justifies an update, you don't have to install deb containing files = 2 Gb on a regular basis. ** Changed in: dpkg

[Bug 852555] Re: package dpkg 1.16.0~ubuntu7 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 2

2011-09-17 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 850562] Re: package clamav-base 0.97.2 dfsg-1ubuntu1.11.04~lucid1 failed to install/upgrade: package clamav-base is already installed and configured

2011-09-15 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Hello, thanks for your report but the log doesn't show the root cause for the failure, so there's not much we can do. If you have more information that could be useful to understand what happened, please share them. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- You received

[Bug 691644] Re: This error when downloading prog' (Reading database ... 95%dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package 'libhttp-dav-perl' is missing final newline

2011-09-15 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Can you attach /var/lib/dpkg/info/libhttp-dav-perl.list ? Then you can remove it and reinstall libhttp-dav-perl to let dpkg recreate it... But in general this is a file-system corruption and not a bug in dpkg. Thus tagging as incomplete. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New =

[Bug 839993] Re: package nautilus-dropbox (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

2011-09-03 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Hello, that's a feature not a bug. Without the non-free dropboxd, nautilus-dropbox is useless and thus can't be considered configured. I hope upstream will improve their wrapper so that the wrapper can install dropboxd as root even after the initial install. ** Changed in: nautilus-dropbox

Re: [Bug 839993] Re: package nautilus-dropbox (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

2011-09-03 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
that is it can only fail in the initial installation in theory. But as I said I hope upstream will update their code to allow automatic installation (as root) when it detects the missing binary. At that point, I can remove the failing postinst... Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian

[Bug 840317] Re: /etc/logrotate.d/dpkg should not have compress option

2011-09-03 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I'm not convinced by your argumentation. Changing this might not be a big problem but IMO it doesn't bring anything except confusing other software that are not expecting the log files to be uncompressed. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Opinion -- You received this bug

[Bug 839399] Re: package bash 4.2-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package bash is already installed and configured

2011-09-02 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Can you show us the output of ls -al /usr/share/doc/bash ? The real error is this one but it looks weird that dpkg is unable to create that file... the only idea is that /usr/share/doc/bash has been replaced by something that's not a directory and I want to verify that with the output of the

Re: [Bug 839399] Re: package bash 4.2-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package bash is already installed and configured

2011-09-02 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net

Re: [Bug 839848] [NEW] dpkg: warning: failed to open configuration file '/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch' for reading: Permission denied

2011-09-02 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
and the weird rights would be a consequence of stricter umask on your system ? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 838780] Re: package nautilus-dropbox 0.6.8-1 failed to install/upgrade: 子进程 已安装 post-installation 脚本 返回了错误号 255

2011-09-01 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Hello, the error message is relatively clear and it's not a bug of the package but a network problem on your side. Error: Trouble connecting to Dropbox servers. Maybe your internet connection is down, or you need to set your http_proxy environment variable. ** Changed in: nautilus-dropbox

[Bug 836869] Re: package libpam-modules 1.1.1-4ubuntu2.3 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libpam-modules is already installed and configured

2011-08-30 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 572081 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/572081 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 572081 package libpam0g 1.1.1-2ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server -- You received this bug

[Bug 837400] Re: package keyboard-configuration 1.57ubuntu24 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package keyboard-configuration is already installed and configured

2011-08-30 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The underlying problem is the one below and it's usually a problem of a broken symlink installed on the system (filesystem corruption). You can try to unpack gedit-common with with dpkg -D111 --install to see which symlink is broken and then remove it. The next try should then work. Unpacking

[Bug 836221] Re: package foomatic-filters 4.0.7-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package foomatic-filters is already installed and configured

2011-08-29 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Input/output error is a hardware (harddisk) problem and not a bug in dpkg. Sorry. dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: reading files list for package 'linux-headers-2.6.38-11-generic': Input/output error ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug

[Bug 831759] Re: package setserial 2.17-45.3ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:

2011-08-25 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is not a bug in dpkg but rather a hardware problem, most likely a corrupted DVD. dpkg: error processing /cdrom//pool/main/s/setserial/setserial_2.17-45.3ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack): cannot access archive: Input/output error ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid --

[Bug 818014] Re: dropbox crashed with IOError in makefile(): [Errno 26] Text file busy: '/var/lib/dropbox/.dropbox-dist/library.zip'

2011-08-24 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
** Visibility changed to: Public -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/818014 Title: dropbox crashed with IOError in makefile(): [Errno 26] Text file busy:

[Bug 821212] Re: dropbox crashed with IOError in __init__(): [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/dropbox/dropbox.tar.gz'

2011-08-24 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
When did you experience this crash? Was it while trying to start it from the menu? Dropbox is installed in a directory that can only be written by root so it's normal that as a normal user you get permission denied but the installation should not be retried since the initial install is supposed

[Bug 818014] Re: dropbox crashed with IOError in makefile(): [Errno 26] Text file busy: '/var/lib/dropbox/.dropbox-dist/library.zip'

2011-08-24 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Hello, thank you for your report. Did you run dropbox update manually or was this during a package upgrade? Also did you run it as root or as normal user? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 831734] Re: package x11-apps 7.4 2 failed to install/upgrade:

2011-08-23 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 831661] Re: package nautilus-dropbox 0.6.8-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

2011-08-23 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Please read the precise error message. This is not a bug in the package but rather in your connection to the dropbox servers at the time you installed the package. Try dpkg --configure -a to retry the install. Error: Trouble connecting to Dropbox servers. Maybe your internet connection is down,

[Bug 832198] Re: package libudev0 173-0ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libudev0 is already installed and configured

2011-08-23 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The error message is this one: dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 0: newline in field name `../../../../../share/pyshared/ibus/interface/inotifications.py' It looks like something corrupted the available file. It's unlikely to be dpkg's fault. Run dpkg --clear-avail

[Bug 827942] Re: package dselect (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: unable to create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument

2011-08-22 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
You did upgrade your linux kernel: 2011-08-19 10:13:37 upgrade linux-generic 2.6.38.10.25 2.6.38.11.26 [...] 2011-08-19 10:13:58 configure linux-image-2.6.38-11-generic 2.6.38-11.48 none But the log clearly shows that you installed lots of other packages even with the older kernel. So I don't

Re: [Bug 827942] Re: package dselect (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: unable to create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument

2011-08-21 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
have to install strace first (apt-get install strace). You might want to compress the log file before sending it (gzip log and you send the log.gz file). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http

Re: [Bug 827942] Re: package dselect (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: unable to create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument

2011-08-21 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
to some unexpected stuff done by MacOS. But it's just a wild guess. It might also be some issue with SMACK or similar security modules but I doubt we would get EINVAL as error code if that was the reason. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http

Re: [Bug 827942] Re: package dselect (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: unable to create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument

2011-08-20 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
with all packages? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https

[Bug 829110] Re: package dhcp3-client 3.1.3-2ubuntu3.2 failed to install/upgrade: package dhcp3-client is already installed and configured

2011-08-19 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
an SSD disk? Your log is interesting because the error clearly appears after an upgrade of checkbox 0.8.6 to 0.9.1. That said one month elapsed between the upgrade and the first time we see the failure. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com

Re: [Bug 573696] Re: dpkg: ../../src/archives.c:763: tarobject: Assertion `r == stab.st_size' failed. Aborted

2011-08-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
+ 1); assert(r == stab.st_size); So the if lstat and the readlink disagree, either there's a lower level bug (like a filesystem not working properly) or something else changed the symlink between the lstat() and the readlink(). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News

[Bug 827942] Re: package dselect (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: unable to create `/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.dpkg-new' (while processing `./etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg'): Invalid argument

2011-08-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
What filesystem are you using? This error message means that a simple open fails: fd= open(fnamenewvb.buf, (O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_WRONLY), 0); if (fd 0) ohshite(_(unable to create `%.255s' (while processing `%.255s')), fnamenewvb.buf, ti-name); And those arguments

[Bug 828927] Re: package util-linux 2.17.2-9.1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package util-linux is already installed and configured

2011-08-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 828922 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/828922 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 828922 package hostname 3.05ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package hostname is already installed and configured -- You received this bug

[Bug 828922] Re: package hostname 3.05ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package hostname is already installed and configured

2011-08-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The problem comes from bamf. If the simple unpack of a newer version can break all perl scripts, it might be wise to pre-depend on the needed libraries... Preparing to replace libc6 2.13-0ubuntu13 (using .../libc6_2.13-16ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error:

[Bug 828919] Re: package libc6 2.13-0ubuntu13 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libc6 is already installed and configured

2011-08-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 828922 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/828922 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 828922 package hostname 3.05ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package hostname is already installed and configured -- You received this bug

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