rusivi1, sorry if I came off too sharply. Please don't take anything I said personally. My frustration was aimed at the whole Ubuntu bug process in general, and not you. As you say, most of us are volunteers here.
Anyway, here's a detailed report of my test today. Several problems I have not seen before have appeared. See the last paragraph for my conclusions and advice. I built a virtual machine on Lucid and installed the server installation of the latest Meerkat, ubuntu-10.10-beta-server-i386.iso, with no services other than openssh server. I then did an "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade", and rebooted to kernel 2.6.35-22. That done, I installed apt-file and its dependencies, followed by "apt- file update". r...@meerkat:~# apt-file --version apt-file version 2.4.0 (c) 2002 Sebastien J. Gross <[email protected]> r...@meerkat:~# ll /var/cache/apt/archives/apt-file_2.4.0_all.deb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31500 2010-05-27 05:05 /var/cache/apt/archives/apt-file_2.4.0_all.deb r...@meerkat:~# apt-cdrom add Using CD-ROM mount point /media/apt/ Identifying.. [c9c6ebb1bcf1afc5dd21beb50e8f9b09-2] Scanning disc for index files.. Found 2 package indexes, 0 source indexes, 0 translation indexes and 1 signatures This disc is called: 'Ubuntu-Server 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Alpha i386 (20100831)' Copying package lists...gpgv: Signature made Mon 30 Aug 2010 11:33:23 PM MDT using DSA key ID FBB75451 gpgv: Good signature from "Ubuntu CD Image Automatic Signing Key <[email protected]>" Reading Package Indexes... Done Writing new source list Source list entries for this disc are: deb cdrom:[Ubuntu-Server 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Alpha i386 (20100831)]/ maverick main restricted Repeat this process for the rest of the CDs in your set. W: Skipping nonexistent file /media/apt/dists/maverick/main/binary-i386/Packages W: Skipping nonexistent file /media/apt/dists/maverick/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages W: Skipping nonexistent file /media/apt/dists/maverick/restricted/binary-i386/Packages W: Skipping nonexistent file /media/apt/dists/maverick/restricted/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages r...@meerkat:~# The results lead me to wonder if I shouldn't try the desktop, so deleted the server CD. I hauled that in (ubuntu-10.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso) and added that: r...@meerkat:~# apt-cdrom add Using CD-ROM mount point /media/apt/ Identifying.. [cbc25b86cb1795b180f5ae0235ea23e9-2] Scanning disc for index files.. Found 2 package indexes, 0 source indexes, 0 translation indexes and 1 signatures Found label 'Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Beta i386 (20100901.1)' This disc is called: 'Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Beta i386 (20100901.1)' Copying package lists...gpgv: Signature made Wed 01 Sep 2010 08:30:42 AM MDT using DSA key ID FBB75451 gpgv: Good signature from "Ubuntu CD Image Automatic Signing Key <[email protected]>" Reading Package Indexes... Done Writing new source list Source list entries for this disc are: deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Beta i386 (20100901.1)]/ maverick main restricted Repeat this process for the rest of the CDs in your set. W: Skipping nonexistent file /media/apt/dists/maverick/main/binary-i386/Packages W: Skipping nonexistent file /media/apt/dists/maverick/restricted/binary-i386/Packages r...@meerkat:~# OK, that's better if not perfect. r...@meerkat:~# apt-file update Put CDROM labeled [Ubuntu_10.10__Maverick_Meerkat__-_Beta_i386_(20100901.1)] in the cdrom device and press [ENTER] mount: /dev/sr0 already mounted or /media/cdrom busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/sr0 is already mounted on /media/cdrom cp: cannot stat `/media/cdrom/dists/maverick/Contents-i386.gz': No such file or directory Downloading Index http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Contents-i386.diff/Index: No Index available. Downloading complete file http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Contents-i386.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 File is up-to-date. Downloading Index http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/Contents-i386.diff/Index: No Index available. Downloading complete file http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/Contents-i386.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 File is up-to-date. Downloading Index http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Contents-i386.diff/Index: No Index available. Downloading complete file http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Contents-i386.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 File is up-to-date. Downloading Index http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/Contents-i386.diff/Index: No Index available. Downloading complete file http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/Contents-i386.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 File is up-to-date. Downloading Index http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Contents-i386.diff/Index: No Index available. Downloading complete file http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick/Contents-i386.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 File is up-to-date. Downloading Index http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/Contents-i386.diff/Index: No Index available. Downloading complete file http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-updates/Contents-i386.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 File is up-to-date. Downloading Index http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/Contents-i386.diff/Index: No Index available. Downloading complete file http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/Contents-i386.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 File is up-to-date. Downloading Index http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/Contents-i386.diff/Index: No Index available. Downloading complete file http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/Contents-i386.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 File is up-to-date. Downloading Index http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/Contents-i386.diff/Index: No Index available. Downloading complete file http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/maverick-security/Contents-i386.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 File is up-to-date. r...@meerkat:~# Note no Contents* file on the CD-ROM. However something seems to have umounted the CD-ROM from where I am expecting to find it: r...@meerkat:~# find /cdrom/* -iname Contents\* find: `/cdrom/*': No such file or directory r...@meerkat:~# ls /cdrom r...@meerkat:~# mount | grep cdrom r...@meerkat:~# This is because apt-cdrom has, apparently, umounted it and remounted it where it wants it (!!): r...@meerkat:~# mount /dev/vda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) ... none on /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs type debugfs (rw,relatime) /dev/sr0 on /media/apt type iso9660 (ro) r...@meerkat:~# Even so, the file isn't there: r...@meerkat:~# find /media/apt/ -iname 'Contents*' r...@meerkat:~# and apt-file is looking for it in all the wrong places. I begin to think this is either an upstream bug or a bug in the CD-ROM building process. In any case, the workaround seems to be to not use a CR-ROM for apt-file data, which implies not using it at all. Given modern Internet speeds, this isn't much of a loss. My advice is to mark it as low priority, and only fix it if you can quickly spot the problem and repair it. -- apt-file can't find Contents on /cdrom https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159396 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
