rhythmbox and dia-common upgrade crashes on gutsy beta upgrade

[hewitten]

Binary package hint: python-support

gutsy beta upgrade at 29.09.2007
upgrade crashed with a crash of update-python-modules, but could be continued after reboot without updating rhythmbox and dia-common.
still update of rhythmbox and dia-common causes the following error:
rhythmbox:

The following packages will be upgraded:
  rhythmbox
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3322kB of archives.
After unpacking 483kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 204135 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace rhythmbox 0.10.0-0ubuntu2 (using .../rhythmbox_0.11.2-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Warning: /usr/share/gconf/schemas/rhythmbox.schemas could not be found.
Usage: gconf-schemas --[un]register file1.schemas [file2.schemas [...]]

gconf-schemas: error: You need to give at least a file to (un)register.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
WARNING: /usr/share/python-support/rhythmbox.dirs does not exist.
         Some bytecompiled files may be left behind.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 227, in <module>
    args.remove(arg)
ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/rhythmbox_0.11.2-0ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/rhythmbox_0.11.2-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

dia-common:

The following packages will be upgraded:
  dia-common
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2392kB of archives.
After unpacking 32,8kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package dia-common.
(Reading database ... 204135 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace dia-common 0.96.1-0ubuntu1 (using .../dia-common_0.96.1-3_all.deb) ...
Ignoring nonregistered document dia-manual
WARNING: /usr/share/python-support/dia-common.dirs does not exist.
         Some bytecompiled files may be left behind.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 227, in <module>
    args.remove(arg)
ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
WARNING: /usr/share/python-support/dia-common.dirs does not exist.
         Some bytecompiled files may be left behind.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 227, in <module>
    args.remove(arg)
ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/dia-common_0.96.1-3_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/dia-common_0.96.1-3_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

similar errors on apt-get remove:

Removing dia-common ...
Ignoring nonregistered document dia-manual
WARNING: /usr/share/python-support/dia-common.dirs does not exist.
         Some bytecompiled files may be left behind.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-python-modules", line 227, in <module>
    args.remove(arg)
ValueError: list.remove(x): x not in list
dpkg: error processing dia-common (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dia-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Looks like a local installation issue, the rhythmbox schemas has no reason to not be available and we got no other bug about that

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's not a rhythmbox bug

[hewitten (witte2000)]

I think the problem occurs because I removed rhytmbox (and maybe dia, can't remember that) in the feisty installation and the upgrade script acts on the assumption, that it is installed. so it's maybe a bug in the update manager more precisely the gutsy upgrade routine, which should not try to upgrade removed packages?
i found the same problem here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3447833

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

This same error occurred to me on hardy, from a network boot and upgrading in steps to get to a GUI.

Attached is an abridged apt term.log to the first occurrence of the error. (I cut out everything after the first error, nothing before)

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Now that a newer package is available it fails with the same error as the original reporter.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

I fixed it by sudo rm rhythmbox.* -rf in /var/lib/dpkg/info
which may not be a recommended fix.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10?

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

I don't think it was ever easily reproducible. The error doesn't occur for me when upgrading rhytmbox anymore, but I'm pretty sure I have formated since then.

I'm closing it until (and if) I see it again. hewitten and other subscribers please reopen if you get it again. (I also tried with a fresh server install to install rhymbox and dia and they both worked)