On 2015-01-25 05:44:33, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the delayed responds time on our part.
Hey no problem. :) > At first glance, this appears to be #771730, which caused dpkg to report > trigger cycles that did not exist. This has been fixed in Jessie now. Great to hear that! > The work around for a system affected by this is to run: > > dpkg --configure --pending > > Possibly repeated with "apt-get -f install" interleaved in between. > > Unfortunately, your system might be in stuck with an old APT plus the > "broken" dpkg. I recommend that you ensure dpkg is upgraded as soon as > possible to avoid hitting this bug again followed by finishing the > upgrade of APT. Once these have been upgraded, you should be able to > continue the upgrade normally from there. I believe the upgrade has completed here with "apt-get upgrade -f". > At the current time, most of our automated upgrade tests are green > regardless of whether you upgrade apt+dpkg first or not. But until > recently, the dpkg+apt in Jessie had several deficiencies (of which you > have experienced at least one). Probably yes. > Please note that we have a few known (actual) trigger cycles. These > currently involve gitweb and postgresql-common. Should you hit one of > those, the work around is to run dpkg --configure --pending and then > repeat the upgrade again. Shouldn't we throw those hints in the release notes upgrade guide? Or maybe changing the guide to say that the multi-step process (apt-get upgrade + apt-get dist-upgrade) is *not* optional? I know at work we always use the multi-step, if only to reduce downtimes... > Apologies for the mess and thanks for taking the time to report it, Well, this is partly my fault for stuffing lots of reports in a single bug report... For example, I wonder if I should open (a?) separate bug report(s?) about the various unexpected debconf prompts from irqbalance, localpurge and base-password... I also found bugs in notmuch-emacs and isc-dhcp-server packages that I had to workaround. Should I open bugs about those as well? Thanks for the followup! A. -- Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best. - Frank Zappa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
