On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:07:30AM -0000, Martin Pitt said: > I just did an intrepid->jaunty upgrade, and I noticed that "Can't exec > "locale" error in libc6's preinst as well, but the upgrade just went on, > and libc6 was correctly updated. It seems this depends on a particular > unpack order, so I need to play with this harder. > > Neil, how did you do the upgrade, with update-manager or apt-get, or > aptitude? If you used update-manager, can you please attach the logs in > /var/log/dist-upgrader/ ?
I used apt-get dist-upgrade which failed. I consequently used update-manager which also failed. term.log reads: (Reading database ... 126069 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace locales 2.7.9-5 (using .../locales_2.9+cvs20090214-7_all.deb) ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/belocs/iso-639.def ... Unpacking replacement locales ... Replacing files in old package belocs-locales-bin ... Processing triggers for man-db ... (Reading database ... (Reading database ... 126078 files and directories currently installed.) Removing belocs-locales-bin ... (Reading database ... (Reading database ... 126061 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9 (using .../libc6_2.9-4ubuntu3_i386.deb) ... Can't exec "locale": No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16. Use of uninitialized value $Debconf::Encoding::charmap in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17. rocess: Resource temporarily unavailable dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.9-4ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.9-4ubuntu3_i386.deb dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure): package libc6 is already installed and configured libc6 386.deb) ... dpkg: regarding .../libc6-i686_2.9-4ubuntu3_i386.deb containing libc6-i686, pre-dependency problem: libc6-i686 pre-depends on libc6 (= 2.9-4ubuntu3) libc6 is installed, but is version 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu9. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i686_2.9-4ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack): pre-dependency problem - not installing libc6-i686 I've just tried aptitude however and the upgrade is working now. N -- /usr/bin/locale missing during upgrade https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330048 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
