gnome-menus and bamfdaemon failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned

[Hathaway-dave]

[Impact]

During upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04

gnome-menus and bamfdaemon triggers start looping forever.

[Test case]

Do a distro upgrade from 15.10 to 16.04

[Regression potential]

Nothing known at this stage. There's no behavior change, just a timing one.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: gnome-menus 3.13.3-6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jun 4 07:35:11 2016
Dependencies:

ErrorMessage: triggers looping, abandoned
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-01 (246 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.1
 apt 1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1
SourcePackage: gnome-menus
Title: package gnome-menus 3.13.3-6ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-06-04 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package bamf - 0.5.3~bzr0+16.10.20160705-0ubuntu1

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bamf (0.5.3~bzr0+16.10.20160705-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  * debian/bamfdaemon.triggers: use interest-noawait (LP: #1589097)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <[e-mail]> Tue, 05 Jul 2016 01:10:52 +0000

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Hathaway-dave, or anyone else affected,

Accepted bamf into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bamf/0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package bamf - 0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1

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bamf (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * BamfMatcher: allow overriding desktop with the environment var
    BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * Daemon: manually set to complete the startup notification on view
    state change (LP: #1582430)

  [ Marco Trevisan (Treviño) ]
  * debian/bamfdaemon.triggers: use interest-noawait (LP: #1589097)

 -- Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <[e-mail]> Fri, 01 Jul 2016 10:44:07 +0000

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for bamf has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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