dontzap not installed after upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty (kubuntu)

[Clay Weber]

Binary package hint: update-manager

After performing a successful upgrade of Kubuntu Intrepid to Jaunty, the "dont-zap" option to enable/disable ctrl-alt-backspace is missing.

This option is present on my non-upgraded Jaunty laptop.

The upgraded system is missing the package "dontzap", and after installing that, the option is then present.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/* to this report?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The problem is that:

Package: kdebase-workspace-bin
Source: kdebase-workspace
Priority: optional
Section: kde
Installed-Size: 12360
Maintainer: Kubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: i386
Version: 4:4.2.1a-0ubuntu1~intrepid3
Recommends: dontzap
...

from the PPA already has the recommends (but the package is not available). So the upgrader thinks this recommends was already seen (and the user did not wanted it).

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is only a problem on PPA -> jaunty upgrades, I just tested the normal intrepid->jaunty upgrade and dontzap got installed for me.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

I just dup'ed 349263 to this as I had the same problem. The difference is I upgraded from intrepid-backports where the same situation occurs. Dontzap isn't needed in Intrepid because of the default. We do need to add it for Jaunty, so I think that we ought to have update-manager work around this case (since upgrades from backports are a supported use case).

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

@Scott: thanks for clarifying, I added the required option in the releae upgrade now, it will be part of the next upload.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Excellent. Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.111.1

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update-manager (1:0.111.1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.cfg:
    - ensure that dontzap is installed on kubuntu (LP: #349263)
    - ensure to not upgrade to a known broken python2.6 (e.g.
      if the mirrors do not catch up)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py:
    - avoid conffile prompt because we enabled apport (LP: #348301)
    - deal better with apt ordering bugs and restore the system
      cleanly in this case
    - when commenting out third party sources, leave a space
      between previous comments (thanks to Sidnei da Silva)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeCache.py:
    - add "BadVersions" config option
  * UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py:
    - ignore bad header line errors (LP: #353335)
  * UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py:
    - start minimized when run with --no-focus-on-map (LP: #353195)
    - set urgency hint when in the background (LP: #353195)
  * po/*.po:
    - updated translations from rosetta

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:42:17 +0200

[Fibonacci (fibonacci-prower)]

I just did an update from Ubuntu Intrepid to Jaunty on an i686 computer, and this bug is still present - dontzap wasn't automatically installed.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

How did you upgrade and what KDE version did you have installed before the
upgrade?

[Fibonacci (fibonacci-prower)]

I did an upgrade from Ubuntu Intrepid, not Kubuntu Intrepid. I didn't have KDE installed. I used upgrade-manager.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

dontzap not being installed is normal for Ubuntu. It's only part of Kubuntu by default.

[Andrew Frank (frank-geoinfo)]

i have a clean ubuntu jaunty installation (from release). the release not indicate that dontzap --disable should work. it does not. dontzap is not installed and can not be installed from the regular ubuntu repositories. how to get dontzap?

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the new magic-s method does not work, as these keys are often captured by other programs (eg. screen dumps in firefox)

thank you
andrew

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Install the package dontzap using your favorite package management tool.
The dontzap package is included by default in Kubuntu, but not in Ubuntu.