failed dist upgrade (7.10-8.04): gnome-applets & ubuntu-desktop

[huzzam]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I ran the standard distribution upgrade, to upgrade from a fairly standard Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron. The download went fine, but installation failed on the packages gnome-applets & then ubuntu-desktop. The upgrade finally aborted & said to report this bug, and that it would run a recovery (dpkg --configure -a).

Not sure whether the system will be usable after a restart.

Attaching the log files from /var/log/dist-upgrade, as requested by the distribution upgrade failure window.

This is a duplicate of Bug 225808, which I just filed directly through the launchpad site. This one is from "report a problem" in the distribution upgrade help menu, in case there's useful additional information included in this method.

(Sorry, I've never submitted an ubuntu bug before. That's a good thing!)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 2 13:21:33 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/User Name/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-14-generic i686

[huzzam (clarinet)]

dangit i just noticed that it defaulted to reporting the bug against firefox-3.0. It should be filed against dist-upgrade instead.

[huzzam (clarinet)]

dangit again. i mean it should be filed against ***update-manager***

i bet you're all hoping i never file another bug;)

[Joe Smith (yasumoto7)]

Thanks for submitting your first bug, huzzam!

Looking through the dist-upgrade/main.log file, I think this is relevant:

2008-05-01 19:41:01,080 DEBUG no file '/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/25adept-archive-limits'
2008-05-01 22:57:55,498 INFO cache.commit()
2008-05-01 23:43:25,691 WARNING no activity on terminal for 240 seconds (Configuring scrollkeeper)
2008-05-01 23:55:31,476 DEBUG got a conffile-prompt from dpkg for file: '/etc/ntp.conf'
2008-05-02 12:00:25,317 WARNING no activity on terminal for 240 seconds (Installed nethack-console)
2008-05-02 12:05:43,459 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'gnome-applets': 'subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1'
2008-05-02 12:05:43,469 DEBUG running apport_pkgfailure() gnome-applets: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

A quick google search makes me think that the 25adept-archive-limits file is there for apt to clean out the package archive? It looks like a dpkg issue, so I'm going to mark the bug as such. Also, I've tried to look at the duplicate bug, but it's telling me I don't have permission to access the page. Can you get to it huzzam?

[Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog)]

The underlying problem is that debconf is not working in that apt run. It's definitely not a dpkg bug. In fact it looks like a user problem where the update is run without X support while debconf requires it. Possibly an old update-manager or debconf problem.