[Bug 825089] Re: package ttf-umefont 411-1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package ttf-umefont is already installed and configured

2011-08-12 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 640727] Re: package dpkg 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES', which is also in package vlc-data 0:1.0.6-1ubuntu1.1

2011-08-11 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
What this means is that /usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES is a file instead of a directory... dpkg is unlikely to be responsible of such mistake/problems. If you have supplementary information that can explain how this happened, feel free to tell us and to switch the bug back to "new" status. ** Ch

[Bug 636586] Re: dpkg complains about non-existing lines in /var/lib/dpkg/ files

2011-08-11 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is a warning and not an error, so it's harmless. But the warning is real and the right thing to do is to get rid of the offending packages (or upgrade to a good version). ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a mem

[Bug 346577] Re: dpkg-source failed to rename file across filesystems

2011-08-11 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346577 Title: dpkg-source failed to rename file across filesystems To manage notificati

[Bug 632280] Re: dpkg-dev: can't unpack old packages without Format field

2011-08-11 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
One year later I think it's no longer worth fixing in lucid... feel free to revert Colin if you still plan to update the package in lucid. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu Lucid) Status: In Progress => Won't Fix ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu Lucid) Assignee: Colin Watson (cjwatson) => (unass

[Bug 575172] Re: package libgs8 8.71.dfsg.1-0ubuntu5.1 failed to install/upgrade: Paket libgs8 ist schon installiert und konfiguriert

2011-08-07 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 541595 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541595 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 541595 [Master] package failed to install/upgrade: package is already installed and configured -- You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 821740] Re: package mythbuntu-control-centre 0.28-0ubuntu1 hardy1 failed to install/upgrade:

2011-08-06 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The real problem is in mythbuntu-control-centre, thus reaffecting. Preparing to replace mythbuntu-control-centre 0.28-0ubuntu1+hardy1 (using .../mythbuntu-control-centre_0.62-0ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Removing `diversion of /usr/share/mythtv/main_settings.xml to /usr/share/mythtv/main_settings.xml.di

[Bug 821630] Re: debconf fails with "frontend: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0."

2011-08-06 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The problem is that debconf's graphical interface fails to run due to "Fatal IO error 11". I don't know what can cause this and it would be nice if debconf had some sort of automatic fallback to non-interactive instead of just failing. Thus reassigning to debconf. Checking for services that may ne

[Bug 663514] Re: incorrect symbol in /var/lib/dpkg/available

2011-08-04 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Run dpkg --clear-avail to fix your problem. In any case, this is not a dpkg problem but one of the corresponding package that you used to have installed. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whic

[Bug 667314] Re: package dpkg 1.14.24ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: unable to create `./usr/sbin/install-info': Permission denied

2011-08-04 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This doesn't look like a dpkg bug but more a system problem. Running as root, dpkg should have the right to create any file... it's not clear why the kernel would disallow creation of /usr/bin/install-info. It's either a misconfiguration in some security feature (SELinux? SMACK?). Without further

[Bug 797839] Re: [dpkg-dev] auto-generated patch too easily included (debian/patches/debian-changes-*)

2011-08-04 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/797839 Title: [dpkg-dev] auto-generated patch too easily included (debian/patches /de

[Bug 819072] Re: package mount 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.10.10.2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package mount is already installed and configured

2011-08-01 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Hello, can you attach /var/lib/dpkg/info/libzephyr4.list ? To fix your problem, you can simply remove that file and reinstall the package libzephyr4 (apt-get --reinstall install libzephyr4). Do you remember if your machine crashed or lost power abruptly at some point? Because the file should never

Re: [Bug 818044] Re: package dpkg 1.16.0~ubuntu7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2011-07-29 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
p... It would be helpful to give a clearer description of "something happens". :-) If I don't have any hint of what could have caused this problem, then I can't fix it. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (

[Bug 818044] Re: package dpkg 1.16.0~ubuntu7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2011-07-29 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Can you attach the content of /var/lib/dpkg/triggers/ and /var/lib/dpkg/status to this bug report? it looks like something got corrupted because dpkg-dev and dpkg-repack do not register any trigger. Did you install some unofficial packages or have any idea what could have lead to this problem? Th

[Bug 815700] Re: dpkg-mergechangelogs emits non-standard conflict markers

2011-07-28 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I committed a fix for this in the upstream git repository. Thanks for the report. http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=dpkg/dpkg.git;a=commit;h=5c233019cc770fb59671090d4a9462adb149921f ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 815704] Re: dpkg-mergechanglogs drops invalid lines

2011-07-28 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
FWIW, this is a documented limitation, you can check the manual page. Given the way the code is structured, it's unlikely to be fixed any time soon. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug

Re: [Bug 817492] Re: package nautilus-dropbox 0.6.8-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

2011-07-28 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
ss the web? Did you try to redo "sudo dpkg --configure nautilus-dropbox" in a terminal? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- You received this bug notificati

[Bug 817492] Re: package nautilus-dropbox 0.6.8-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

2011-07-28 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Please read the error message you got: Error: Trouble connecting to Dropbox servers. Maybe your internet connection is down, or you need to set your http_proxy environment variable. This is not a bug in the package, you should have access to Internet to download dropbox. ** Changed in: nautilus-

[Bug 810676] Re: Describes packages as "previously deselected" when they never were

2011-07-26 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
It's already fixed in the upstream git repository, see the changelog entry. * Use “unselected” as an adjective in dpkg output messages instead of “deselected”. Closes: #231089 http://bugs.debian.org/231089 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #231089 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bug

[Bug 714310] Re: package chromium-browser 9.0.597.84~r72991-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: short read on buffer copy for backend dpkg-deb during `./usr/lib/chromium-browser/

2011-07-22 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/714310 Title: package chromium-browser 9.0.597.84~r72991-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 failed to

[Bug 813135] Re: package thunderbird 3.1.10 build1 nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package thunderbird is already installed and configured

2011-07-19 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is not a problem in dpkg, you ran out of disk space: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux- image-2.6.32-33-generic_2.6.32-33.70_i386.deb (--unpack): unable to create `/lib/modules/2.6.32-33-generic/kernel/drivers/edac/e752x_edac.ko.dpkg- new' (while processing `./lib/modules

[Bug 565724] Re: package fakeroot (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: unable to open '/usr/lib64/libfakeroot/libfakeroot-tcp.so.dpkg-new': No such file or directory

2011-07-19 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The bug has been correctly diagnosed, more info at http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/07/18/deciphering-one-of-dpkg-weirdest- errors-unable-to-open-pathtofoo-dpkg-new/ Thus this is not a bug of fakeroot, it didn't setup the /usr/lib64/ symlink. If anyone finds out what did setup this symlink, you shou

[Bug 670981] Re: dpkg locks up operations upon error frontend: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0

2011-07-19 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
dpkg has no "X" frontend and this error message doesn't come from dpkg. What apt frontend were you using when you had the error? In the mean time reassigning this to apt. ** Package changed: dpkg (Ubuntu) => apt (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bu

[Bug 674467] Re: package samba-common 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128

2011-07-19 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 500175 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500175 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 500175 Canceling an installation in Software Center crashes debconf with "Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Front

[Bug 675398] Re: package samba-common 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10

2011-07-19 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The log shows that many files are missing in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ and the two packages that fail use ucf. I would not be surprised to learn that more stuff is missing from /var. Thus I suspect this is a failure of ucf when some of his files are unexpectedly missing. Reassigning to ucf for further i

[Bug 676887] Re: After Upgrade to 10.10 virtualbox screws up packet management

2011-07-19 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is just a warning, it is harmless. Thus this is not a bug. And the underscore in the version is really wrong. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs

[Bug 678249] Re: package mysql-server-5.1 5.1.37-1ubuntu5.5 failed to install/upgrade: Unterprozess neues pre-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 128 zurück

2011-07-19 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 801729 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/801729 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 801729 package winbind 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128 -- Yo

[Bug 683334] Re: package dpkg 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.4 failed to install/upgrade: cannot access archive: No such file or directory

2011-07-19 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This does not make any sense at all. Unless you tell us how to reproduce your problem, there's nothing we can do with this bug report. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 678307] Re: package vlc-data (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: uszkodzone archiwum tar - uszkodzone archiwum pakietu

2011-07-19 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 681850] Re: dpkg is not reinstalling some configuration files properly

2011-07-19 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is a feature, not a bug. See the option --force-confmiss to force dpkg to reinstall configuration files that you removed. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 686297] Re: dpkg won't let me install stuff

2011-07-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Unless you know how you managed to get those files corrupted and how to reproduce it, there's nothing we can do about this. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 683001] Re: package dpkg 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.3 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES', which is also in package apt 0:0.7.25.3ubuntu9.3

2011-07-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This means that /usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES is a file and not a directory. This is not the fault of dpkg and is likely a user problem or some sort of filesystem corruption. There's nothing that we can do at the dpkg level and unless you know who/what replaced that directory with a file, there'

[Bug 691957] Re: Failure when upgrading the system (broken packages)

2011-07-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 762211] Re: input/output error when trying to access /var/lib/dpkg/available

2011-07-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Input/Output error is a sign of a hardware problem and not of a software bug. ** Changed in: dpkg Status: New => Invalid ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 782820] Re: dpkg-divert crashed with signal 7

2011-07-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
dpkg-divert has been rewritten in C and no longer uses Perl. ** Visibility changed to: Public ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 812622] Re: package patch 2.6-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: package patch is already installed and configured

2011-07-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I'm afraid the attached logs provide no clue on the precise error, unless you provide more detailed information, there's nothing we can do about this. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which i

[Bug 812624] Re: package dkms 2.1.1.2-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: package dkms is already installed and configured

2011-07-18 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 812622 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/812622 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 812622 package patch 2.6-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: package patch is already installed and configured -- You received this bug notification because

[Bug 803493] Re: package clamav-base 0.95.3 dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.10.4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128

2011-07-15 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 801729 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/801729 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 801729 package winbind 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128 -- Yo

[Bug 801729] Re: package winbind 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128

2011-07-15 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
** Package changed: dpkg (Ubuntu) => debconf (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/801729 Title: package winbind 2:3.5.8~dfsg-1ubuntu2.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess inst

[Bug 809223] Re: package startupmanager 1.9.13-5 failed to install/upgrade: package startupmanager is already installed and configured

2011-07-15 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you, that was the right file. It looks like "apt" is the culprit. It installs both packages entirely and then tries to configure it a second time for no good reason. It's weird because apt usually does unpack + configure in 2 steps, and here it looks like it called "dpkg -i" directly for thos

[Bug 809223] Re: package startupmanager 1.9.13-5 failed to install/upgrade: package startupmanager is already installed and configured

2011-07-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
We need a log of the "terminal" where we see the output of the calls to dpkg. I think it's /var/log/apt/term.log or something like that (I can't remember). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs

[Bug 810070] Re: package b43-fwcutter 1:012-1build1 failed to install/upgrade: package b43-fwcutter is already installed and configured

2011-07-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I'm afraid the attached log do not give any information about the problem you encountered. Thus I'm marking this bug as invalid. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 809223] Re: package startupmanager 1.9.13-5 failed to install/upgrade: package startupmanager is already installed and configured

2011-07-12 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
We need the complete upgrade log where you saw this error message, without it this bug cannot be further investigated. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https

[Bug 809225] Re: package menu 2.1.44ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: package menu is already installed and configured

2011-07-12 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 809223 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/809223 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 809223 package startupmanager 1.9.13-5 failed to install/upgrade: package startupmanager is already installed and configured -- You received this bug notifi

[Bug 808923] Re: package libxkbfile1 1:1.0.6-1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libxkbfile1 is already installed and configured

2011-07-11 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 773850] Re: tzdata fails to upgrade

2011-07-10 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Hum, my former comment applied to #807619 which I marked as a dupe, this report has the same failure mode but on the link() call and this call is not even documented to be able to return EINVAL. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 773850] Re: tzdata fails to upgrade

2011-07-10 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
What kernel (version & package) do you use? What is the version of libc6 on your system? What is the version of dpkg? The error messages is strange, it indicates that a simple open() call failed with EINVAL which is documented this way: EINVAL The implementation does not support synchronized I/O

[Bug 807619] Re: apt updates fail with invalid argument

2011-07-10 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 773850 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/773850 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 773850 tzdata fails to upgrade -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.lau

[Bug 808098] Re: package libmono-system-web2.0-cil 2.4.4~svn151842-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: package libmono-system-web2.0-cil is already installed and configured

2011-07-10 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I'm sorry, there's no error in the attached log. I'm thus marking this bug as invalid. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/808098

[Bug 807268] Re: package libc-bin 2.12.1-0ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libc-bin is already installed and configured

2011-07-09 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The file contains garbage at the end, most likely due to some filesystem corruption. What filesystem are you using? Are you using an SSD disk? ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 793173] Re: update-alternatives: error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/gnome-www-browser corrupt: invalid status

2011-07-08 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
As expected the content has nothing to do with the original file, you can just remove it. Out of curiosity, are you using an SSD disk? And what is the filesystem you're using? ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 807540] Re: Attempting to update with dpkg

2011-07-08 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
There's no indication what the problem is, marking as invalid. I assume it's related to the other bug reported which showed an hardware problem. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs

[Bug 807539] Re: sudo dpkg --configure -a

2011-07-08 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This is a hardware problem. Please verify your disk & memory. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/807539 Title: sudo dpkg --con

[Bug 807268] Re: package libc-bin 2.12.1-0ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libc-bin is already installed and configured

2011-07-07 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The error is: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package 'liboil0.3' is missing final newline Can you attach the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/liboil0.3.list ? ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Tags added: missing-final-newline -- You rece

[Bug 806263] Re: package perl-modules 5.10.1-17ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: package perl-modules is already installed and configured

2011-07-06 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I'm afraid there's nothing to do with your bug report unless you can paste the precise error message that you saw (i.e. before the "is already installed and configured" ones). In particular the log of the failed package installation. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid --

[Bug 805669] Re: package flashplugin-installer 10.3.181.34ubuntu0.10.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: package flashplugin-installer is already installed and configured

2011-07-04 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The attached log doesn't show any error, I can't do anything with this report. Thus marking it as invalid. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchp

[Bug 805285] Re: package hplip-data 3.10.6-1ubuntu10 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package hplip-data is already installed and configured

2011-07-04 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 804837] Re: package openoffice.org-core 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2 failed to install/upgrade: package openoffice.org-core is already installed and configured

2011-07-03 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Hello, the log doesn't show the initial error that resulted in openoffice.org being only half-installed. Without this this report is useless. I'm thus marking it as invalid. Please set it back to new if you provide the missing information. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid

[Bug 804838] Re: package ttf-opensymbol 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2 failed to install/upgrade: package ttf-opensymbol is already installed and configured

2011-07-03 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 804837 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/804837 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 804837 package openoffice.org-core 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2 failed to install/upgrade: package openoffice.org-core is already installed and configured -- You rece

[Bug 803723] Re: package grub-pc 1.98-1ubuntu12 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127

2011-06-29 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The error message is: Setting up grub-pc (1.98-1ubuntu12) ... /etc/default/grub: 9: acpi=linux: not found dpkg: error processing grub-pc (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127 It looks like you have bad data in /etc/default/grub. I don't where

[Bug 801667] Re: package texlive-latex-base-doc 2009-7 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package texlive-latex-base-doc is already installed and configured

2011-06-24 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The error message is the following: Unpacking replacement texlive-font-utils ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-font- utils_2009-10ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack): failed to stat (dereference) existing symlink `/usr/share/doc/texlive- doc/fonts/fontinst/test/testsc.tex': Input

[Bug 801437] Re: parser too strict

2011-06-23 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I see it's in oneiric only currently. I asked Steve Langasek & Colin Watson to prepare an SRU some time ago not sure if it will happen, we'll see. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/801437

[Bug 801437] Re: parser too strict

2011-06-23 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
What version of dpkg were you using? The latest version 1.16.0.3ubuntu2 is supposed to fix this. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 800903] Re: package openoffice.org-voikko 2.1-1build3 failed to install/upgrade:

2011-06-22 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The initial error seems to come from APT which fails to install openoffice.org-core because it failed to deal with a conflict and thus dpkg failed... Selecting previously deselected package openoffice.org-core. dpkg: regarding .../openoffice.org-core_1%3a3.2.0-7ubuntu4.2_i386.deb containing openo

[Bug 799013] Re: package zoneminder 1.24.2-7ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package zoneminder is already installed and configured

2011-06-17 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Checking the log gives this error as the root cause. It looks like something on purpose by the package so maybe not a problem but I'll reassign it anyway. Preparing to replace zoneminder 1.24.2-7ubuntu1 (using .../zoneminder_1.24.2-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... Stopping ZoneMinder: success Aborting i

[Bug 424358] Re: dpkg assert failure: dpkg: ../../lib/dump.c:190: w_status: Assertion `pigp->trigpend_head' failed.

2011-06-17 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/424358 Title: dpkg assert failure: dpkg: ../../lib/dump.c:190: w_status: Assertion `p

[Bug 798793] Re: dpkg: ../../../lib/dpkg/dump.c:250: w_status: Assertion `pigp->trigpend_head' failed.

2011-06-17 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Ok, thanks for the information. That said no wonder that things break when you do such things without understanding the implications :-) See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798803 for the bug that caused your initial problem. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Committed

[Bug 798793] Re: dpkg: ../../../lib/dpkg/dump.c:250: w_status: Assertion `pigp->trigpend_head' failed.

2011-06-17 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Please attach a tarball with /var/lib/dpkg/status and the content of /var/lib/dpkg/triggers/. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/798793 Title: dpkg: ../../../lib/dpkg/dump.c:250: w_status

Re: [Bug 797839] Re: [dpkg-dev] auto-generated patch too easily included (debian/patches/debian-changes-*))

2011-06-15 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
lt, it would be better to coordinate with > debian. As an upstream dpkg developer, I already decided to change this. See the recent discussion on debian-devel: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/05/msg01130.html So it's coming soon. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follo

[Bug 797175] Re: While using synaptic package manager and trying to do an update

2011-06-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
You can do "sudo dpkg --clear-avail" to get rid of the error you are seeing. But that doesn't explain why the error appeared, most likely some sort of file corruption. And the related bug is not more helpful. For the failed removal, try to finish the installation with "sudo apt- get install linux-

[Bug 796849] Re: E: Unable to synchronize mmap - msync (5: Input/output error) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

2011-06-14 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
This messages comes from apt, not from dpkg. Reassigning accordingly. ** Package changed: dpkg (Ubuntu) => apt (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/796849 Title: E: Unable to sync

[Bug 796708] Re: package vim-tiny 2:7.2.330-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: package vim-tiny is already installed and configured

2011-06-13 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I'm sorry but the log you pasted doesn't show the initial error. The error "is already installed and configured" is only a consequence of a former error. Please provide us this initial error that snowballed in the problems you saw. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete --

[Bug 796264] Re: package xfonts-encodings 1:1.0.3-1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package xfonts-encodings is already installed and configured

2011-06-13 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 796145] Re: doc-base triggers fails with a segmentation fault

2011-06-12 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The precise error is this one: Unpacking replacement libcomerr2 ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... Processing triggers for python-gmenu ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...

[Bug 795754] Re: package libc6-dev 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.8 failed to install/upgrade: package libc6-dev is already installed and configured

2011-06-11 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
I'm afraid the log attached does not show any error. And the error message from the title is not significant. If you have some logs of the real error that preceded the message shown in the title, please send it. Otherwise there's nothing we can do with this bug report. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu

[Bug 795726] Re: package python-ubuntuone-storageprotocol 1.6.0-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: package python-ubuntuone-storageprotocol is already installed and configured

2011-06-11 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 794344] Re: package initramfs-tools-bin 0.92bubuntu78 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package initramfs-tools-bin is already installed and configured

2011-06-10 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The error is: dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: files list file for package 'computer-janitor-gtk' is missing final newline It's likely a file system corruption. Remove /var/lib/dpkg/info /computer-janitor-gtk.list and reinstall this package. If you know how to reproduce the problem, f

[Bug 795432] Re: Sync nautilus-dropbox 0.6.7-2 (multiverse) from Debian unstable (non-free)

2011-06-10 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Note that requestsync suggested "universe"... I changed to "multiverse" since it's in Debian non-free. I filed this report because Daniel Holbach told me that non-free packages are not auto-imported into Ubuntu but this one definitely should. -- You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 795432] [NEW] Sync nautilus-dropbox 0.6.7-2 (multiverse) from Debian unstable (non-free)

2011-06-10 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
download, but we still have to implement HTTPS certificate validation. * Add the "XS-Autobuild: yes" header as per http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/11/msg00012.html -- Raphaël Hertzog Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:02:14 +0200 nautilus-dropbox (0.6.7-1) unstable; u

[Bug 604568] Re: The various *-www-browser alternatives should be linked

2011-06-09 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
dpkg is not the proper package to discuss this suggestion. Reassigning it to ubuntu since it concerns several packages. ** Package changed: dpkg (Ubuntu) => ubuntu -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 773451] Re: upgrading from 10.10 to 11.04

2011-06-08 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Reaffecting to memtest86+ since that's what appears in the log: Setting up memtest86+ (4.10-1.1ubuntu1) ... Generating grub.cfg ... /etc/grub.d/00_header: 28: /usr/lib/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib: Permission denied dpkg: error processing memtest86+ (--configure): subprocess installed post-installat

[Bug 793173] Re: update-alternatives: error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/gnome-www-browser corrupt: invalid status

2011-06-05 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Please attach /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/gnome-www-browser. It's most likely some sort of file corruption but the content of this file will make this clearer. If the file is empty, you can close this bug as the fix has been integrated in upstream dpkg already. Otherwise it's likely some file syste

[Bug 792180] Re: package libgcc1 1:4.5.1-7ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package libgcc1 is already installed and configured

2011-06-02 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 792181 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/792181 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 792181 package openjdk-6-jre-lib 6b20-1.9.7-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package openjdk-6-jre-lib is already installed and configured -

[Bug 792181] Re: package openjdk-6-jre-lib 6b20-1.9.7-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package openjdk-6-jre-lib is already installed and configured

2011-06-02 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try

[Bug 791892] Re: I tried using the update manager to automatically update my packages and got this:

2011-06-02 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thanks for you report. But what did you do to get into this situation? Your status file is corrupted and it's likely because of an hardware or file system problem. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 791638] Re: package medit 0.10.4-1 failed to install/upgrade: package medit is already installed and configured

2011-06-02 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 541595 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541595 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 541595 [Master] package failed to install/upgrade: package is already installed and configured -- You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 790424] Re: package udev 151-12.3 failed to install/upgrade: package udev is already installed and configured

2011-05-30 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 541595 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541595 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 541595 [Master] package failed to install/upgrade: package is already installed and configured -- You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 790425] Re: package dmsetup 2:1.02.39-1ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: package dmsetup is already installed and configured

2011-05-30 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 541595 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541595 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 790424 package udev 151-12.3 failed to install/upgrade: package udev is already installed and configured ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 790424

[Bug 790426] Re: package ifupdown 0.6.8ubuntu29.2 failed to install/upgrade: package ifupdown is already installed and configured

2011-05-30 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 541595 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541595 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 790424 package udev 151-12.3 failed to install/upgrade: package udev is already installed and configured ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 790424

[Bug 318698] Re: package libdb4.6 4.6.21-6ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:

2011-05-28 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 541595 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/541595 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 541595 [Master] package failed to install/upgrade: package is already installed and configured -- You received this bug notification because you are a membe

[Bug 787905] Re: package smbclient 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.6 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package smbclient is already installed and configured

2011-05-24 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that there was an error on your system when trying to install a particular package. Please execute the following command, as it will clear your package cache, in a terminal: sudo apt-get clean Then try pe

[Bug 370910] Re: problem installing large deb packages

2011-05-23 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Can you try again with a more recent dpkg version like the one in oneiric? We had bugs with packages bigger than 2Gb but they have been fixed upstream recently. Marking is a fix released in the mean time but if you can still reproduce the problem, feel free to reopen it (or to file a new one). **

[Bug 786068] Re: package x11proto-core-dev 7.0.20-1 failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '': No such file or directory

2011-05-23 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 545790 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/545790 Nguyen, what locale are you using? Please paste the output of the "locale" command. Do you have a complete log that includes the error message "error writing to ''" ? Because the attached log doesn't show th

[Bug 786069] Re: package libice-dev 2:1.0.7-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '': No such file or directory

2011-05-23 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 545790 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/545790 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 786068 package x11proto-core-dev 7.0.20-1 failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '': No such file or directory ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bu

[Bug 786071] Re: package xtrans-dev 1.2.6-1 failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '': No such file or directory

2011-05-23 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 545790 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/545790 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 786068 package x11proto-core-dev 7.0.20-1 failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '': No such file or directory ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bu

[Bug 786072] Re: package libice-dev 2:1.0.7-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '': No such file or directory

2011-05-23 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 545790 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/545790 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 786068 package x11proto-core-dev 7.0.20-1 failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '': No such file or directory ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bu

[Bug 574524] Re: package kvm-pxe 5.4.4-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: unable to open '/usr/share/kvm/pxe-e1000.bin.dpkg-new': No such file or directory / deferred fsync failed due to non-existent

2011-05-22 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
It's not a dpkg issue, the problem is that two files are installed at the same place because of the /usr/share/kvm symlink. etherboot, kvm-pxe need to be be better coordinated and should not install files through packaged symlinks. ** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Invalid -

[Bug 785945] Re: package openoffice.org-writer2xhtml 1.0-10ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package openoffice.org-writer2xhtml is already installed and configured

2011-05-21 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
The underlying error is this one: Preparing to replace openoffice.org-writer2xhtml 1.0-10ubuntu1 (using .../openoffice.org-writer2xhtml_1.0-12ubuntu1_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/openoffice.org- writer2xhtml_1.0-12ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-ins

[Bug 786032] Re: dpkg treats two identical packages differently

2011-05-21 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Also while the two .deb contain the same set of files, the order of the files in the data.tar archive differ. So the problem is likely dependent on the unpack order of the files (and symlinks in particular). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s

[Bug 786032] Re: dpkg treats two identical packages differently

2011-05-21 Thread Raphaël Hertzog
Are there unexpected symlinks in the second case for example one of the directories in constituting the path to /usr/lib/python2.7/dist- packages/foolscap-0.6.1.egg-info/ or /usr/lib/python2.6/dist- packages/foolscap-0.6.1.egg-info/ or /usr/share/pyshared/foolscap-0.6.1 .egg-info/ ? That's usually

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