[Bug 283942] Re: crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom hardy to intrepid beta (after about half of the packages had been upgraded)

2008-10-15 Thread Ernst Kloppenburg
continuing the recovery notes: after the upgrade is completed, apport will display a lot of errors concerning the inability to configure some of the packages. call dpkg-reconfigure -p hight for each of them manually (or script it with the information from /var/crash) -- crashed during installin

[Bug 283942] Re: crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom hardy to intrepid beta (after about half of the packages had been upgraded)

2008-10-15 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.93.26 --- update-manager (1:0.93.26) intrepid; urgency=low * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py: - workaround kde tmpfile permissions (LP: #277431) * UpdateManager/Common/utils.py: - do not crash if gconfd is not ava

[Bug 283942] Re: crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom hardy to intrepid beta (after about half of the packages had been upgraded)

2008-10-15 Thread Ernst Kloppenburg
in case other people have the same problem and read this, I would like to contribute here how I did proceed with my installation to recover from the problem: - repeatedly called dpkg --configure -a until it succeeded (better would be to first edit /var/cache/debconf/config.dat as described in

[Bug 283942] Re: crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom hardy to intrepid beta (after about half of the packages had been upgraded)

2008-10-15 Thread Michael Vogt
Thanks for your bugreport. I switched the release upgrader to not use the kde frontend anymore during the ugprade. It will now default to "noninteractive". ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael Vogt (mvo) Status: New => Fix Committed -- crashed dur

[Bug 283942] Re: crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom hardy to intrepid beta (after about half of the packages had been upgraded)

2008-10-15 Thread Ernst Kloppenburg
I found a related bug, 270626. They had a similar problem and traced it down to the debconf KDE frontend not working properly. Thus my previous bug 283930 is also related (or duplicate?) The base issue is to keep the debconf kde frontend working during an upgrade. My suggestion for a solution is

[Bug 283942] Re: crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom hardy to intrepid beta (after about half of the packages had been upgraded)

2008-10-15 Thread Ernst Kloppenburg
while doing 'dpkg --configure -a' now, I get a lot of the following errors, which might be related. *** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/perl terminated btw., are there any suggestions for getting out of this and completing the upgrade? -- crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom

[Bug 283942] Re: crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom hardy to intrepid beta (after about half of the packages had been upgraded)

2008-10-15 Thread Ernst Kloppenburg
** Attachment added: "apt.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18577506/apt.log -- crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom hardy to intrepid beta (after about half of the packages had been upgraded) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283942 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 283942] Re: crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom hardy to intrepid beta (after about half of the packages had been upgraded)

2008-10-15 Thread Ernst Kloppenburg
** Attachment added: "apt-term.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18577503/apt-term.log -- crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom hardy to intrepid beta (after about half of the packages had been upgraded) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283942 You received this bug notification b

[Bug 283942] Re: crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom hardy to intrepid beta (after about half of the packages had been upgraded)

2008-10-15 Thread Ernst Kloppenburg
** Attachment added: "main.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18577492/main.log -- crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom hardy to intrepid beta (after about half of the packages had been upgraded) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283942 You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 283942] Re: crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom hardy to intrepid beta (after about half of the packages had been upgraded)

2008-10-15 Thread Ernst Kloppenburg
** Attachment added: "term.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18577484/term.log -- crashed during installing packages on upgrade vom hardy to intrepid beta (after about half of the packages had been upgraded) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283942 You received this bug notification because y