E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'bash'.Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)

[Matt Joiner]

Binary package hint: bash

An error occurs when reinstalling all system packages, after the download step, and prior to preparation:

E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'bash'.Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)

[Kusum (kusumbabouria)]

happens in lucid full updated

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

apt issue

[hippocanjump (hippocanjump)]

Same bug here (lucid) - after and attempt to reinstall all packages

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

@Matt, any news about this issue? Have you tried to reproduce this issue under latest release of Ubuntu Maverick? by the way, would be nice if you can include some steps to reproduce this issue, Thanks.

[Matt Joiner (anacrolix)]

Unfortunately the Maverick beta fails to install on my system, and I've currently removed upgraded instances elsewhere. I'll repeat the test when the RC comes out (and installation presumably succeeds).

[Tim Gehpunkt (rollercoaster)]

i think this always happens if you have circular dependencies. e.g. pkg a depends on b, b depends on c and c depends on a.
Then first "c" is installed but configuration fails because "a" is (not yet) installed

workaround:
echo 'APT::Immediate-Configure "false";' > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/67configure

[Tim Gehpunkt (rollercoaster)]

related to #546447

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for apt (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Matt Joiner (anacrolix)]

This bug still exists.

[Doug (boarder-dougca)]

To reproduce run :

sudo aptitude reinstall '~i'

Returns:

...
Writing extended state information... Done
E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'bash'.Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done
...

Tested on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS x86_64 (Kernel version 2.6.32-31)

[Doug (boarder-dougca)]

Using the workaround suggested by rollercoaster returns the following message:

...
Writing extended state information... Done
E: Couldn't configure pre-depend coreutils for dpkg, probably a dependency cycle.
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done
...

[Dan Schaefer (dan-schaeferzone)]

Still an issue. I have a similar output as Doug when applying rollercoaster's workaround:

E: Couldn't configure pre-depend perl-base for debconf, probably a dependency cycle.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Support for this version has ended