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package menu 2.1.47ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned

Bug #1430313 reported by kpiq on 2015-03-10

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	menu (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

just doing an apt-get update &&apt-get dist-upgrade on ubuntu 15.04

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: menu 2.1.47ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-031900-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.16.2-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 10 08:52:07 2015
DuplicateSignature: package:menu:2.1.47ubuntu1:triggers looping, abandoned
ErrorMessage: triggers looping, abandoned
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-15 (53 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150115)
SourcePackage: menu
Title: package menu 2.1.47ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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kpiq (pserrano) wrote on 2015-03-10:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (7.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (170 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (91.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (55.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (19.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2015-03-10

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-03-11:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in menu (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) on 2015-03-11

Changed in menu (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2015-03-24:

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 Therefore, this bug report is no longer valid and I'm marking it as such.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