kdebase-workspace-bin broken after upgrade

[thomas f]

Binary package hint: kdebase-workspace-bin

After being told there were updates, I went ahead and upgraded. Noticed a few KDE packages. restarted x, and now plasma won't run.

wasted@cixar:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  kdebase-workspace-bin
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
wasted@cixar:~$ sudo apt-get install kdebase-workspace-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  kdebase-workspace-bin: Depends: kdebase-workspace-data (= 4:4.2.1a-0ubuntu1~intrepid3) but 4:4.2.1a-0ubuntu1~intrepid1 is to be installed
                         Recommends: dontzap but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
wasted@cixar:~$

wasted@cixar:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Codename: intrepid
wasted@cixar:~$

[thomas f (wastedfluid-gmail)]

Nevermind. I guess a quick update was applied or something. Another update --fix-missing and upgrade within 2 hours fixed it.

thanks anyways!

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Yeah, i386 was lagging a bit behind, and since all arch-independent packages build on i386 the arch-specific packages were probably ready before the data package was.

[Khem Raj (khem-raj)]

kdebase-workspace-data 4:4.2.1a-0ubuntu12 for jaunty was released on 2009-03-27 and now I see similar broken upgrade chain on jaunty

$ sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  kdebase-workspace-bin
The following packages will be upgraded:
  kdebase-workspace-data
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/7023kB of archives. After unpacking 4096B will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  kdebase-workspace-bin: Depends: kdebase-workspace-data (= 4:4.2.1a-0ubuntu10) but 4:4.2.1a-0ubuntu12 is to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
kdebase-workspace-bin
kubuntu-desktop

Score is 188

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] n

and if you accept it then plasma wont start once kdebase-workspace-bin is removed.