** Description changed: - Keen to try out Gnome 40 on impish, I enabled impish-proposed and - updated, all was fine. I prefer the upstream vanilla gnome experience - so installed vanilla-gnome-desktop which depends on vanilla-gnome- - default-settings. However, vanilla-gnome-default-settings installation - failed: + Impact + ------ + A user that tries to install vanilla-gnome-default-settings (or its reverse dependency vanilla-gnome-desktop) gets an error every time they use apt. There isn't a built in way in apt to fix this error. + + Test Case + --------- + Enabled proposed updates + From a terminal, run + sudo apt install vanilla-gnome-default-settings + The install should complete without any dpkg errors. + + Where Problems Could Occur + -------------------------- + This is a one-line typo fix. It's not really possible to make this worse since the current package already leaves dpkg in a very unhappy state. + + Original Bug Report + ------------------- + Keen to try out Gnome 40 on impish, I enabled impish-proposed and updated, all was fine. I prefer the upstream vanilla gnome experience so installed vanilla-gnome-desktop which depends on vanilla-gnome-default-settings. However, vanilla-gnome-default-settings installation failed: Setting up vanilla-gnome-default-settings (20.04.1) ... update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for gdm3-theme.gresource dpkg: error processing package vanilla-gnome-default-settings (--configure): installed vanilla-gnome-default-settings package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: vanilla-gnome-default-settings E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) 1) $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Impish Indri (development branch) Release: 21.10 2) $ apt-cache policy vanilla-gnome-default-settings vanilla-gnome-default-settings: Installed: 20.04.1 Candidate: 20.04.1 Version table: *** 20.04.1 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/universe amd64 Packages 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/universe i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) I would expect the package to install without errors. 4) Instead it does not complete installation. Further attempts to --configure etc also fail. I understand this is software in development, I'm just trying to help. Thanks for all your hard work.
** Changed in: ubuntu-gnome-default-settings (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: ubuntu-gnome-default-settings (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => In Progress ** Also affects: ubuntu-gnome-default-settings (Ubuntu Impish) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: ubuntu-gnome-default-settings (Ubuntu Impish) Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: ubuntu-gnome-default-settings (Ubuntu Impish) Status: New => In Progress -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1935767 Title: vanilla-gnome-default-settings will not install for impish-proposed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-gnome-default-settings/+bug/1935767/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs