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package libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned

Bug #1060977 reported by gooch on 2012-10-03

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	glib2.0 (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

This error occurred when attempting to apt-get install gedit

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 3 08:43:31 2012
ErrorMessage: triggers looping, abandoned
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
SourcePackage: glib2.0
Title: package libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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gooch (bobhandley) wrote on 2012-10-03:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (689 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (508 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (335 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (111.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DuplicateSignature.txt Edit (637 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2012-10-03

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2015-02-05:

From DpkgTerminalLog.txt:

dpkg: cycle found while processing triggers:
chain of packages whose triggers are or may be responsible:
  menu -> hicolor-icon-theme
packages' pending triggers which are or may be unresolvable:
  libglib2.0-0: /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
  gconf2: /usr/share/GConf/gsettings
  gnome-menus: /usr/share/applications
  hicolor-icon-theme: /usr/share/icons/hicolor
  man-db: /usr/share/man
  desktop-file-utils: /usr/share/applications
  menu: /usr/share/menu
dpkg: error processing libglib2.0-0 (--unpack):
triggers looping, abandoned
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2015-03-20:

dpkg trigger cycle detection was an experimental feature in Debian, and subsequently Ubuntu, was has now been removed from dpkg. Therefore, this bug report is no longer valid and I'm marking it as such.

If you are interested in more information about this issue you could look at:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776910#42