package libkdewebkit5 4:4.9.2-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: package libkdewebkit5 is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `half-installed')

[Beltrán Molina]

Conflicto de instalación, mientras usaba gestor de paquetes synaptic

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: libkdewebkit5 4:4.9.2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
AptOrdering:
 unity-webapps-facebookmessenger: Install
 libkdewebkit5: Configure
 unity-webapps-facebookmessenger: Configure
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Nov 13 15:54:54 2012
ErrorMessage: package libkdewebkit5 is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `half-installed')
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-13 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: kde4libs
Title: package libkdewebkit5 4:4.9.2-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: package libkdewebkit5 is not ready for configuration cannot configure (current status `half-installed')
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Note: please only report bugs in english.

At 08:31:49 local time something made your package manager crash and left libkdewebkit5 (the package it was working on at the time) in an undefined state which later on, when trying to do another package management operation, became apparent and caused this error.

The application issuing the action at 08:31 was aptdaemon so I am going to move this bug there, but unless you remember what you did or have crash data on what happend at that time I do not see this bug going anywhere unfortunately.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

The libkdewebkit package failed to install at this session: 2012-11-13 15:47:15

And it just stayed in the half-configured state. This is not related to aptdaemon.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

But the reason that it was in the half-configured state to begin with is that aptdaemon suddenly disappeared in between replacing and unpacking it. There's certainly nothing to be done on the kde4libs side of things.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Moving to aptdaemon again. As far as we are concerned there is no problem with the packaging. Something interrupted aptdaemon while it was working on libkdewebkit leaving the package half-installed and broken which then some *6 hours later* surfaced when trying to continue the install.

If you can think of no way this would be easily triggered in a Unity session (allowing the user to reboot via the menu for instance) or do not want to pursue the matter, please close the report. Tossing it back will not do much good :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for aptdaemon (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]