Bug appears to be related to Sophos Anti-Virus (SAV). I removed SAV, and apt-get -f install completed OK. Terminal output below. SAV was using fanotify for on-access detection.
Caveats: 1. I have two machines affected by this, I've only tried this on one so far. 2. This is not a simple causal relationship: I have other machines with SAV installed using fanotify that did not show this problem. I will report this to Sophos. Terminal output: root@finwhale:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libreoffice-common Suggested packages: libreoffice-style-crystal libreoffice-style-hicontrast libreoffice-style-oxygen libreoffice-style-sifr libreoffice-style-tango The following NEW packages will be installed: libreoffice-common 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded. 24 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/19.9 MB of archives. After this operation, 76.1 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 201455 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libreoffice-common_1%3a4.2.8-0ubuntu2_all.deb ... Unpacking libreoffice-common (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a4.2.8-0ubuntu2_all.deb (--unpack): unable to open '/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xslt/import/spreadsheetml/spreadsheetml2ooo.xsl.dpkg-new': Operation not permitted rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice/share/prereg/’: No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice/share/’: No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice/program/’: No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice’: No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove ‘/var/lib/libreoffice’: No such file or directory Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-icon-theme (3.10.0-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.2-0ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libreoffice-common_1%3a4.2.8-0ubuntu2_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) root@finwhale:~# cd /opt/sophos-av root@finwhale:/opt/sophos-av# ls bin engine include lib32 mcs share tmp uninstall.sh var doc etc lib log rms talpa uncdownload update root@finwhale:/opt/sophos-av# cd root@finwhale:~# /opt/sophos-av/uninstall.sh Uninstalling Sophos Anti-Virus. WARNING: Sophos Anti-Virus still running. WARNING: Sophos Anti-Virus GUI daemon still running. Do you want to stop Sophos Anti-Virus? Yes(Y)/No(N) [N] > Y Stopping Sophos Anti-Virus. Stopping Sophos Anti-Virus GUI daemon. Sophos Anti-Virus has been uninstalled. root@finwhale:~# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libreoffice-common Suggested packages: libreoffice-style-crystal libreoffice-style-hicontrast libreoffice-style-oxygen libreoffice-style-sifr libreoffice-style-tango The following NEW packages will be installed: libreoffice-common 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 21 not upgraded. 24 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/19.9 MB of archives. After this operation, 76.1 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 201455 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libreoffice-common_1%3a4.2.8-0ubuntu2_all.deb ... Unpacking libreoffice-common (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-icon-theme (3.10.0-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.2-0ubuntu3) ... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Setting up fonts-dejavu (2.34-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up fonts-sil-gentium (20081126:1.02-13) ... Setting up fonts-sil-gentium-basic (1.1-7) ... Setting up libservlet3.0-java (7.0.52-1ubuntu0.1) ... Setting up libhsqldb1.8.0-java (1.8.0.10+dfsg-3ubuntu1) ... Setting up libreoffice-common (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-core (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-pdfimport (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-base-core (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-base-drivers (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-base (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-calc (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-draw (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-impress (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-math (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-report-builder-bin (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-writer (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-java-common (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up python3-uno (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-gtk (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-gnome (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-sdbc-firebird (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... Setting up libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb (1:4.2.8-0ubuntu2) ... root@finwhale:~# ----- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1454668 Title: Failed to upgrade/reinstall libreoffice-common To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1454668/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
