package debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 when Ubuntu-keyring is not yet installed

[David A. Cobb]

Binary package hint: debian-archive-keyring

Ubuntu 8.10

The post-install script fails with a message about an "Archive-Keyring" not available, and asks "Is Ubuntu-keyring installed?"
Evidently, Ubuntu-keyring is a requirement for a successful install.
It should, therefore, be a dependency in the package database!

Ubuntu-keyring is an "Important" package, and could, perhaps, be assumed. However this was a temporary situation, and the next thing I was doing anyway was to (re-)install that. Only a short time was lost to this bug; however, we could do it "right" and none would have been lost.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: debian-archive-keyring
Title: package debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Philipp Kern (pkern)]

That's most certainly not a bug in debian-archive-keyring. OTOH, just trying to remove various keyring packages and still expecting it to work is... interesting at best. It seems that there was a missing dependency somewhere ubuntu-keyring-ish, but given that the bug's dating back to 8.10 and was a single instance, I'm closing it.

[dino99 (9d9)]

problem is back on Oneiric i386:

W: Erreur de GPG : http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric Release : Les signatures suivantes n'ont pas pu être vérifiées car la clé publique n'est pas disponible : NO_PUBKEY C2518248EEA14886

i've tried to set it via:
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys EEA14886

and get:
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.zLwmvcRIAl --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys EEA14886
gpg: Invalid option "--keyserver.ubuntu.com"

then tried:
sudo apt-get -o Acquire::http::No-Cache=True -o Acquire::BrokenProxy=true update

and get:
Ign http://archive.canonical.com oneiric InRelease
Ign http://security.ubuntu.com oneiric-security InRelease
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com oneiric InRelease
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-updates InRelease
Ign http://archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-proposed InRelease
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty InRelease
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric InRelease
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric InRelease
Atteint http://archive.canonical.com oneiric Release.gpg
Atteint http://packages.medibuntu.org natty InRelease
Atteint http://security.ubuntu.com oneiric-security Release.gpg
Atteint http://archive.ubuntu.com oneiric Release.gpg
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric InRelease
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty InRelease
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty InRelease
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric InRelease
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric InRelease
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net natty InRelease
Atteint http://archive.canonical.com oneiric Release
Atteint http://security.ubuntu.com oneiric-security Release
Atteint http://archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-updates Release.gpg
Atteint http://ppa.launchpad.net natty Release.gpg
Atteint http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric Release.gpg
Atteint http://packages.medibuntu.org natty/free i386 Packages
Atteint http://archive.canonical.com oneiric/partner i386 Packages
Atteint http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric Release.gpg
Atteint http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric Release.gpg
Atteint http://ppa.launchpad.net natty Release.gpg
Atteint http://archive.ubuntu.com oneiric-proposed Release.gpg
Atteint http://ppa.launchpad.net natty Release.gpg
Atteint http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric Release.gpg
Atteint http://security....

[dino99 (9d9)]

the installed packages are:
- libpam-gnome-keyring 3.1.1-0ubuntu4
- python-keyring 0.5.1-2
- gnome-keyring 3.1.1-0ubuntu4
- libgnome-keyring0 3.1.4-0ubuntu1
- python-gnomekeyring 2.32.0-0ubuntu5
- medibuntu-keyring 2008.04.20
- ubuntu-extras-keyring 2010.09.27

[Philipp Kern (pkern)]

The problem of dino99 is something completely different. (I.e. not being able to fetch a PPA key by not following the instructions.)