Re: Aptitude issue
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 23:43:02 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:50:48 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install it. That is when the problem began. Aptitude hung trying to remove openoffice.org-writer2latex. [...] Thanks Florian. Commenting out 2 thru x lines of the script in fact worked. I was able to do a aptitude update aptitude full-upgrade. Next when I went to add openoffice.org back in, the silly thing hangs right back at the same package: rattler:~# aptitude install openoffice.org [...] Updating fontconfig cache for /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation Setting up openoffice.org-officebean (1:2.4.1-17+b1) ... Setting up openoffice.org-writer2latex (0.5-8) ... Adding extension /usr/lib/openoffice/share/extension/install/writer2latex.uno.pkg... I would try this (I cannot guarantee anything, though): 1) Uninstall openoffice again completely, using the same trick for the problematic pre-removal script. 2) Purge all openoffice packages that still have configuration files on your system, using this command: aptitude purge '~nopenoffice~c' 3) Check /usr/lib/openoffice/share/extension/ and its sub-folders. If there are any files left then you probably have to remove them manually. 4) Try to install openoffice again and keep your fingers crossed. -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Aptitude issue
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 23:43:02 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:50:48 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install it. That is when the problem began. Aptitude hung trying to remove openoffice.org-writer2latex. [...] Thanks Florian. Commenting out 2 thru x lines of the script in fact worked. I was able to do a aptitude update aptitude full-upgrade. Next when I went to add openoffice.org back in, the silly thing hangs right back at the same package: rattler:~# aptitude install openoffice.org [...] Updating fontconfig cache for /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation Setting up openoffice.org-officebean (1:2.4.1-17+b1) ... Setting up openoffice.org-writer2latex (0.5-8) ... Adding extension /usr/lib/openoffice/share/extension/install/writer2latex.uno.pkg... I would try this (I cannot guarantee anything, though): 1) Uninstall openoffice again completely, using the same trick for the problematic pre-removal script. 2) Purge all openoffice packages that still have configuration files on your system, using this command: aptitude purge '~nopenoffice~c' 3) Check /usr/lib/openoffice/share/extension/ and its sub-folders. If there are any files left then you probably have to remove them manually. 4) Try to install openoffice again and keep your fingers crossed. Florian, thank you so much. That did the trick. I was able to remove it completely (verified via dpkg -l | grep office). I was then able to install it successfully, and now OO works where it did not work before. Thank you so much for your time and patience!! Mike -- The wise person writes bomb-proof code. 00:40:01 up 4 days, 21:32, 2 users, load average: 0.51, 0.60, 0.54 Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Aptitude issue
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:50:48 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install it. That is when the problem began. Aptitude hung trying to remove openoffice.org-writer2latex. [...] It seems that the pre-removal script gets stuck while trying to determine the full name of the writer2latex extension. You can try this yourself: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg list --shared | grep latex If that command comes up empty or if it hangs then you might have to comment out every invocation of /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg in /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm and run aptitude install -f to get the broken package off your system. Hey Florian. Unfortunately this did not work. The command unopkg did in fact hang. OK, so at least we know for sure that we have to get rid of it in the script. I did comment out all of the occurrences of unopkg in /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm and ran 'aptitude install -f' as you said. Here is the result: [...] Removing openoffice.org-writer2latex ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `}' dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-writer2latex (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: openoffice.org-writer2latex E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Now the problem is that the function flush_unopkg_cache is empty since its only instruction has been commented out and shells tend not to like that. I should have realized that my somewhat vague instructions could lead to this problem. Anyway, if unopkg does not work anymore for you then you might as well comment out the entire script from line 2 to the end and be done with it. (The only purpose of the pre-removal script seems to be ensuring that unopkg is invoked correctly, but that horse has left the barn already on your system.) -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Aptitude issue
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 17:50:48 -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I
was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to
resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install
it. That is when the problem began. Aptitude hung trying to remove
openoffice.org-writer2latex.
[...]
Now the problem is that the function flush_unopkg_cache is empty since
its only instruction has been commented out and shells tend not to like
that. I should have realized that my somewhat vague instructions could
lead to this problem. Anyway, if unopkg does not work anymore for you
then you might as well comment out the entire script from line 2 to the
end and be done with it. (The only purpose of the pre-removal script
seems to be ensuring that unopkg is invoked correctly, but that horse
has left the barn already on your system.)
Thanks Florian. Commenting out 2 thru x lines of the script in fact
worked. I was able to do a aptitude update aptitude full-upgrade.
Next when I went to add openoffice.org back in, the silly thing hangs
right back at the same package:
rattler:~# aptitude install openoffice.org
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libblas3gf{a} libgfortran3{a} liblapack3gf{a} libsuitesparse-3.1.0{a}
libwps-0.1-1{a} lp-solve{a} openoffice.org openoffice.org-base{a}
openoffice.org-base-core{a} openoffice.org-calc{a} openoffice.org-draw{a}
openoffice.org-emailmerge{a} openoffice.org-filter-binfilter{a}
openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev{a} openoffice.org-impress{a}
openoffice.org-math{a} openoffice.org-officebean{a}
openoffice.org-report-builder-bin{a}
openoffice.org-writer{a} openoffice.org-writer2latex{a} python-uno{a}
ttf-liberation{a}
0 packages upgraded, 22 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 12.8MB/38.8MB of archives. After unpacking 101MB will be
used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://10.10.10.1 lenny/main libwps-0.1-1 0.1.2-1 [60.7kB]
...
[snip]
...
Updating fontconfig cache for /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-liberation
Setting up openoffice.org-officebean (1:2.4.1-17+b1) ...
Setting up openoffice.org-writer2latex (0.5-8) ...
Adding extension
/usr/lib/openoffice/share/extension/install/writer2latex.uno.pkg...
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Aptitude issue
I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I
was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to
resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install
it. That is when the problem began. Aptitude hung trying to remove
openoffice.org-writer2latex. I ended up aborting the process and went on
about my business. Tonight I needed to install ksensors on the same
machine when the OpenOffice problem again reared its ugly head.
rattler:~# aptitude install ksensors
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
hddtemp{a} ksensors
The following packages will be REMOVED:
openoffice.org-writer2latex{u}
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 355kB of archives. After unpacking 434kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://10.10.10.1 lenny/main ksensors 0.7.3-16 [301kB]
Get:2 http://10.10.10.1 lenny/main hddtemp 0.3-beta15-44 [54.1kB]
Fetched 355kB in 1s (191kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 182769 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing openoffice.org-writer2latex ...
At this point, aptitude will sit here for as long as you are willing to
wait. On another terminal, I did 'ps ax'. The relevant portions follow:
4726 pts/3Sl+0:03 aptitude install ksensors
4757 pts/6Ss+0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 24
--force-depends --force-remove-essential --remove
openoffice.org-writer2latex
4758 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove
4759 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove
4760 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg
list --shared
4761 pts/6S+ 0:00 grep Identifier:.*writer2latex
4762 pts/6S+ 0:00 cut -d: -f2
4780 pts/6S+ 0:00 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 4
4802 pts/6R+ 0:11 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg.bin list
--shared -env:JFW_PLUGIN_DO_NOT_CHECK_ACCESSIBILITY=1
-env:UNO_JAVA_JFW_INSTALL_DATA=$$ORIGIN/../share/config/javasettingsunopkginstall.xml
-env:UserInstallation=fi
4803 pts/4R+ 0:00 ps ax
How can I go about resolving this issue? would it be safe to manually
delete:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-write2latex.prerm
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg.bin
I'm guessing the answer to this would be no as I think it would corrupt
the dpkg database.
Thanks for any clues!
Mike
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Re: Aptitude issue
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote: I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install it. That is when the problem began. Aptitude hung trying to remove openoffice.org-writer2latex. That indicates a problem with the pre-removal script of this package; aptitude cannot do much about that. I ended up aborting the process and went on about my business. Tonight I needed to install ksensors on the same machine when the OpenOffice problem again reared its ugly head. The openoffice.org-writer2latex package is in a broken state on your system (incomplete removal), therefore aptitude has to try to fix it before it can perform actions on other packages. rattler:~# aptitude install ksensors [...] Removing openoffice.org-writer2latex ... At this point, aptitude will sit here for as long as you are willing to wait. On another terminal, I did 'ps ax'. The relevant portions follow: 4726 pts/3Sl+0:03 aptitude install ksensors 4757 pts/6Ss+0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 24 --force-depends --force-remove-essential --remove openoffice.org-writer2latex 4758 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove 4759 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove 4760 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg list --shared 4761 pts/6S+ 0:00 grep Identifier:.*writer2latex 4762 pts/6S+ 0:00 cut -d: -f2 4780 pts/6S+ 0:00 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 4 4802 pts/6R+ 0:11 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg.bin list --shared -env:JFW_PLUGIN_DO_NOT_CHECK_ACCESSIBILITY=1 -env:UNO_JAVA_JFW_INSTALL_DATA=$$ORIGIN/../share/config/javasettingsunopkginstall.xml -env:UserInstallation=fi [...] It seems that the pre-removal script gets stuck while trying to determine the full name of the writer2latex extension. You can try this yourself: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg list --shared | grep latex If that command comes up empty or if it hangs then you might have to comment out every invocation of /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg in /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm and run aptitude install -f to get the broken package off your system. -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Aptitude issue
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote:
I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I
was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to
resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install
it. That is when the problem began. Aptitude hung trying to remove
openoffice.org-writer2latex.
That indicates a problem with the pre-removal script of this package;
aptitude cannot do much about that.
I ended up aborting the process and went on
about my business. Tonight I needed to install ksensors on the same
machine when the OpenOffice problem again reared its ugly head.
The openoffice.org-writer2latex package is in a broken state on your
system (incomplete removal), therefore aptitude has to try to fix it
before it can perform actions on other packages.
rattler:~# aptitude install ksensors
[...]
Removing openoffice.org-writer2latex ...
At this point, aptitude will sit here for as long as you are willing to
wait. On another terminal, I did 'ps ax'. The relevant portions follow:
4726 pts/3Sl+0:03 aptitude install ksensors
4757 pts/6Ss+0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 24
--force-depends --force-remove-essential --remove
openoffice.org-writer2latex
4758 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove
4759 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove
4760 pts/6S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg
list --shared
4761 pts/6S+ 0:00 grep Identifier:.*writer2latex
4762 pts/6S+ 0:00 cut -d: -f2
4780 pts/6S+ 0:00 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 4
4802 pts/6R+ 0:11 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg.bin list
--shared -env:JFW_PLUGIN_DO_NOT_CHECK_ACCESSIBILITY=1
-env:UNO_JAVA_JFW_INSTALL_DATA=$$ORIGIN/../share/config/javasettingsunopkginstall.xml
-env:UserInstallation=fi
[...]
It seems that the pre-removal script gets stuck while trying to
determine the full name of the writer2latex extension. You can try this
yourself:
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg list --shared | grep latex
If that command comes up empty or if it hangs then you might have to
comment out every invocation of /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm and run aptitude
install -f to get the broken package off your system.
Hey Florian. Unfortunately this did not work. The command unopkg did in
fact hang. I did comment out all of the occurrences of unopkg in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm and ran 'aptitude
install -f' as you said. Here is the result:
rattler:~# aptitude install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
hddtemp ksensors
The following packages will be REMOVED:
openoffice.org-writer2latex{u}
The following packages will be upgraded:
libicu38 libkrb53 libmp3lame0 libssl0.9.8 openssl
5 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/11.0MB of archives. After unpacking 504kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 182769 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing openoffice.org-writer2latex ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm: line 7: syntax
error near unexpected token `}'
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-writer2latex (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
openoffice.org-writer2latex
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Thanks,
Mike
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Re: aptitude issue
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:17:40PM -0700, kruton wrote: why does aptitude always want to remove 'sudo'? whether i insall/remove/upgrade anything.. it always wants to remove sudo saying its is unused... Hi, It was probably first installed as a dependency and marked automatically installed. If there is no packages depending on sudo anymore, aptitude wants to remove as it is no longer needed. If you use aptitude in the visual mode, you can see it in the status flags (third character is A, if it was automatically installed). To change the status in the visual mode, go to the package and press 'm' to set sudo as being manually installed. In the command line you can do it by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude unmarkauto sudo HTH Simo -- :r ~/.signature signature.asc Description: Digital signature
