package firebird2.1-classic 2.1.3.18185-0.ds1-6build1 failed to install/upgrade: on ubuntu 9.10->10.04 B2 upgrade

[Cobra_MX5]

== how to reproduce ==
in lucid up to date:
$ sudo apt-get remove --purge firebird2.1-classic
$ sudo apt-get install firebird2.1-classic
[...]
Created default security.fdb
 * Preparing /var/run/firebird/2.1...
[HANG HERE]

package firebird2.1-classic failed to install on upgrade to 10.04 beta 2.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firebird2.1-classic 2.1.3.18185-0.ds1-6build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 19 14:50:14 2010
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
SourcePackage: firebird2.1
Title: package firebird2.1-classic 2.1.3.18185-0.ds1-6build1 failed to install/upgrade:

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

It seems that you've manually interrupted the installation process. Could you please describe what happened ?

[Cobra_MX5 (cobramx5)]

I did actually stop the install process, the reason is that for about 20 minutes it was stuck on "configuring firebird2.1-classic" or something like that... Firebird 3 works ok now, however.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for following up.
Confirmed by duplicate case.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

the installation log of firebird2.1-classic
only the 1rst installation fails.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

BTW it hangs at "exit 0"

[Adam Thompson (athompso)]

I had the same issue, doing a fresh install of firebird2.1-classic on UNR10.04 (not an upgrade).
There was a defunct process with proctitle starting with firebird2.1-<something>, I had to kill that *and* its companion "frontend" process before synaptic would continue.
Manually running dpkg-reconfigure firebird2.1-classic reveals that it is attempting to ask me a question (whether I need the server running or not). Synaptic did not display any prompt of any sort; perhaps that was the problem (UI took a left turn into hyperspace, meanwhile dpkg still waiting for input)?

[Karsten W. Rohrbach (byteborg)]

It happened on a virtual server (fresh install from 10.04-x86 media), too.
Logging in on a second console and killing inetd helped.

[Roland Hughes (original-seasoned-geek)]

Happened to me today with all patches applied.

64-bit AMD 10.04 KUbuntu

Manually killing off the firebird2.1-<something> forced me to also kill of fronted parent process. Took previous user advice and ran in terminal.

sudo dpkg-reconfigure firebird2.1-classic

This allowed me to respond to prompts.

[Kim Ribeiro (kimribeiro)]

also hapened to me
~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure firebird2.1-classic

debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Recurso temporariamente indisponível

[Neil Pickles (neil-csy)]

What's happening to this as it still appears to be a problem.

I am installing a clean AMDx64 10.04 Server setup and the same issue occurs. It just locks solid, have to restart the server from another terminal session, Ctrl C doesn't stop it.

You have to restart server and dpkg-reconfigure firebird2.1-classic to sort out

[Neil Pickles (neil-csy)]

Even when then running dpkg-reconfigure firebird2.1-classic to set the options, it then displays

* Preparing /var/run/firebird/2.1 . . . [OK]

and then hangs again.

This time Ctrl-C gets you back to a console prompt but you have to run 'dpgk --configure -a' to fix a problem.

Why is it hanging like this ?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package firebird2.1 - 2.1.3.18185-0.ds1-11

---------------
firebird2.1 (2.1.3.18185-0.ds1-11) unstable; urgency=low

  * all .postinst: add db_stop at the end
    this hopefuly solves an hardly reproducible hang during configuration
    (LP: #566710)
  * all .init: do not fail miserably if no argument is supplied.
    Closes: #578470 -- /etc/init.d/firebird2.1-{classic,super}: 1: parameter
    not set; Thanks to Nelson A. de Oliveira
  * Standards-Version: 3.9.1 (no changes necessary)
  * control: stop conflicting with packages not in Lenny
  * control: server packages also provide firebird-utils

firebird2.1 (2.1.3.18185-0.ds1-10) unstable; urgency=low

  * add Danish translation of debconf templates
    Thanks to Joe Dalton. Closes: #587812
 -- Mikhail Turov <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:56:01 +0300

[iru (uptons)]

Gentlefolk,

Could someone please tell me how to install/apply this fix/update?

It is stated that a fix has been loaded to the "universe", I have chased through everything I thinks may be remotely useful/informative, no luck.

Some guidance please.

iru

[Popa Adrian Marius (mapopa)]

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:46 AM, iru <email address hidden> wrote:
> Gentlefolk,
>
> Could someone please tell me how to install/apply this fix/update?
>
> It is stated that a fix has been loaded to the "universe", I have chased
> through everything I thinks may be remotely useful/informative, no luck.
>
> Some guidance please.

it's in the universe section of Ubuntu maverick
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/firebird2.1/2.1.3.18185-0.ds1-11
it needs a backport or a simple patch for the previous release

>
> iru
>
> --
> package firebird2.1-classic 2.1.3.18185-0.ds1-6build1 failed to install/upgrade: on ubuntu 9.10->10.04 B2 upgrade
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/566710
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
>

[iru (uptons)]

Gentlefolk,

A little more assistance please. I have read the copious documentation on the Package Manager but I am still struggling to get the update.

I have added to the PackageManager>SoftwareSources>OtherSoftware a variety of url, etc.

No luck, at the end of the "reload" process errors are reported about not being able to access things. I liked the "Something wicked happened resolving" message but even it did not help.

Could someone post an explicit example of how to do it please?

Thanks, iru.

[Adam Thompson (athompso)]

(You haven't included your email address in either of those complaints, nor have you published your email address at your Launchpad page, which makes it rather hard to reply directly to you. The bug tracker is not a forum for people to simply "post instructions" for straightforward [and easily google-able] instructions. However...)

As @mariuz indicated in #16, there is a patched version of this package available for the *next* version of Ubuntu ("Maverick", AKA version 10.10 [I think]).
However, looking at the Launchpad page (http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firebird2.1) we can see that the patch has been made available for other versions as well.

In either of the following cases, note that if you've reported this bug, chances are Firebird is already installed on your system - although likely not configured correctly. You may first want to *uninstall* these packages before attempting to reinstall them.

The automatic way:
go to "Software Sources" under the Administration menu in the GUI and enable the "Universe" repository. It's just a checkbox, you do not need to add any URLs to anything. (In fact, I recommend you undo whatever changes you were talking about, above.) If you can't figure this out, try googling "ubuntu how to enable the universe repository" - the top 10 hits are all reasonably clear; the instructions for v9.x should also work on v10.x. Then launch Synaptic, remove the offending firebird package(s) from your system (I would suggest right-clicking and choosing the "Completely Remove..." option if you're not sure how.), APPLY those changes, then re-install the firebird package(s).

The manual way:
Start at this page: https://launchpad.net/firebird/2.1, and click on the version of Ubuntu that corresponds to whatever you're running. (10.04 is "Lucid Lynx") From the resultant page, under "Builds:" (right-hand column) click on the architecture you are running (most likely amd64 or i386, depending on whether you installed a 64-bit or 32-bit OS). Then click on the name of the package you want to download. From *that* page, under "Downloadable files", click on the .deb file and download it. You'll probably have to download them all or you'll run into dependency problems.

[iru (uptons)]

Adam,

Thanks for the detailed response.

The automatic way made no difference so I tried the manual process.

I now have almost all of the required version installed, a sort of "lucid Maveric".

There is one problem:

I cannot find the module libfbclient2 which is a dependency for the firebird2.1-dev module.

An older version is available via the packagemanager but will not install because it is older and dependent on firebird2.1-common and common-doc.

Thanks for the assistance, iru <email address hidden>

[iru (uptons)]

I also note that flamerobin is dependent upon libfbclient2.......

iru

[iru (uptons)]

Following a "setting up firebird on ubuntu' document the following command sequence is supposed to set up the firebird server.

root@iru-2cd:/var/run/firebird/2.1# apt-get install firebird2.1-classic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
firebird2.1-classic is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 33 not upgraded.
root@iru-2cd:/var/run/firebird/2.1# dpkg-reconfigure firebird2.1-classic
 * Preparing /var/run/firebird/2.1... [ OK ]
root@iru-2cd:/var/run/firebird/2.1#

Supposedly it should result in the following messages and the server should be configured. Nothing message, and no server task (after reboot).

* Firebird 2.1 server manager not running.
      * Starting Firebird 2.1 server manager... [ OK ]
      * Firebird 2.1 server manager already running.

iru

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".