Package: dpkg
Version: 1.18.24
Severity: important
Hi,
please be more verbose about which package a failing script belonged to
and be more verbose about what post-failure cleanup is being performed.
I'm tryint to understand this stretch -> buster upgrade failure (full
log attached):
Preparing to unpack
.../45-texlive-fonts-recommended-doc_2017.20170818-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking texlive-fonts-recommended-doc (2017.20170818-1) over
(2016.20170123-5) ...
Preparing to unpack .../46-texlive-latex-base-doc_2017.20170818-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking texlive-latex-base-doc (2017.20170818-1) over (2016.20170123-5) ...
dpkg: considering removing texlive-fonts-recommended in favour of
texlive-base ...
dpkg: yes, will remove texlive-fonts-recommended in favour of texlive-base
dpkg: considering removing texlive-latex-base in favour of texlive-base ...
dpkg: yes, will remove texlive-latex-base in favour of texlive-base
Preparing to unpack .../47-texlive-base_2017.20170818-1_all.deb ...
De-configuring tipa (2:1.3-20), to allow removal of texlive-latex-base
(2016.20170123-5) ...
De-configuring wims (1:4.13c~dfsg1-2), to allow removal of
texlive-fonts-recommended (2016.20170123-5) ...
apache2-maintscript-helper invoked from a modified environment. Please hint
required arguments manually
dpkg: error processing archive
/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-1LEpM7/47-texlive-base_2017.20170818-1_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
apache2_invoke wims: already enabled
update-language: texlive-base not installed and configured, doing nothing!
Regenerating '/var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-DEBIAN'... done.
Regenerating '/var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-TEXLIVEDIST'... done.
update-fmtutil has updated the following file(s):
/var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-DEBIAN
/var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-TEXLIVEDIST
If you want to activate the changes in the above file(s),
you should run fmtutil-sys or fmtutil.
Selecting previously unselected package texlive-fonts-recommended.
dpkg: considering deconfiguration of texlive-base, which would be broken by
installation of texlive-fonts-recommended ...
dpkg: yes, will deconfigure texlive-base (broken by texlive-fonts-recommended)
Preparing to unpack .../48-texlive-fonts-recommended_2017.20170818-1_all.deb
...
De-configuring texlive-base (2016.20170123-5) ...
Unpacking texlive-fonts-recommended (2017.20170818-1) over (2016.20170123-5)
...
Selecting previously unselected package texlive-latex-base.
Preparing to unpack .../49-texlive-latex-base_2017.20170818-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking texlive-latex-base (2017.20170818-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-1LEpM7/47-texlive-base_2017.20170818-1_all.deb
My interpretation:
I think it's 'wims.prerm deconfigure' failing.
Then we get the message about texlive-base_2017.20170818-1_all.deb (--unpack)
failing.
Then we get the message about installed pre-removal script returned error exit
status 1 (which would be wims.prerm)
Thereafter 'wims.prerm failed-upgrade' is run
Thereafter 'texlive-base.prerm failed-upgrade' is run
BTW, there isn't a command line switch to manually deconfigure a package
with dpkg, is there? That would allow easier testing how deconfigure fails ...
And I would try with piuparts to deconfigure every single package in the
archive :-)
Andreas
