Bug#613280: upgrade-reports: lenny fontconfig failed to remove; prerm fails
reassign 613280 fontconfig 2.6.0-3 fixed 613280 2.8.0-2.1 kthxbye On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 13:09:15 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal In the process of upgrading from lenny to squeeze, I had fontconfig marked for removal. However: Removing fontconfig ... dpkg: error processing fontconfig (--purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: fontconfig E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I ended up having to upgrade fontconfig with the rest of the system, and remove it afterward: Preparing to replace fontconfig 2.6.0-3 (using .../fontconfig_2.8.0-2.1_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK. Unpacking replacement fontconfig ... 2.6.0-3's prerm looks fine to me, so I don't know what happened there. If you can reproduce with set -x in the script that would probably help. If not, there's probably not much to do since that seems fixed in later versions. Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#613280: upgrade-reports: lenny fontconfig failed to remove; prerm fails
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:14:58AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: reassign 613280 fontconfig 2.6.0-3 fixed 613280 2.8.0-2.1 kthxbye On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 13:09:15 -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal In the process of upgrading from lenny to squeeze, I had fontconfig marked for removal. However: Removing fontconfig ... dpkg: error processing fontconfig (--purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: fontconfig E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I ended up having to upgrade fontconfig with the rest of the system, and remove it afterward: Preparing to replace fontconfig 2.6.0-3 (using .../fontconfig_2.8.0-2.1_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK. Unpacking replacement fontconfig ... 2.6.0-3's prerm looks fine to me, so I don't know what happened there. If you can reproduce with set -x in the script that would probably help. If not, there's probably not much to do since that seems fixed in later versions. I've finished upgrading that system at this point. If I run into it again on another upgrade I can try that; otherwise it'll probably require building and upgrading a system with debootstrap. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#613280: upgrade-reports: lenny fontconfig failed to remove; prerm fails
Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal In the process of upgrading from lenny to squeeze, I had fontconfig marked for removal. However: Removing fontconfig ... dpkg: error processing fontconfig (--purge): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 configured to not write apport reports Errors were encountered while processing: fontconfig E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I ended up having to upgrade fontconfig with the rest of the system, and remove it afterward: Preparing to replace fontconfig 2.6.0-3 (using .../fontconfig_2.8.0-2.1_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK. Unpacking replacement fontconfig ... - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
