dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:221: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed.

[SupportGuy]

Binary package hint: arts

dpkg failed earlier due to disk (/var) being 100% full. Freed-up disk space and rerun apt-get. Now dpkg shows this error which is not fixed by:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

dpkg: error processing libarts1c2a (--configure):
 package libarts1c2a is not ready for configuration
 cannot configure (current status `triggers-awaited')
dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:221: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: package libarts1c2a is not ready for configuration
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libarts1c2a 1.5.10-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: arts
Title: package libarts1c2a 1.5.10-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: package libarts1c2a is not ready for configuration
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

looks more like a bug in dpkg than the arts packaging.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

This is also discussed in bug 262451and others. Briefly, a failure in the package's trigger script triggers the dpkg bug.

So there is a bug in package's trigger and in dpkg.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The arts trigger actually isn't failing here.