Package hardening-wrapper has broken Conflicts on binutils-multiarch and is held back when upgrading from lucid to maverick

[Jeremy Kerr]

Binary package hint: binutils

Doing an upgrade from lucid to maverick ('sudo do-release-upgrade -d') triggered apport due to a failed dpkg.

I saw a python ImportError at the time: "no module named gi"

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: binutils-multiarch 2.20.1-3ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.38-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 5 17:07:01 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
SourcePackage: binutils
Title: package binutils-multiarch 2.20.1-3ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2

[Jeremy Kerr (jk-ozlabs)]

Looks like the ImportError was unrelated; I get the same symlink conflict from and apt-get -f install:

Preparing to replace binutils-multiarch 2.20.1-3ubuntu6 (using .../binutils-multiarch_2.20.51.20100710-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg-divert: `diversion of /usr/bin/ld.bfd to /usr/bin/ld.bfd.single by binutils-multiarch' clashes with `diversion of /usr/bin/ld.bfd to /usr/bin/ld.bfd.real by hardening-wrapper'
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/binutils-multiarch_2.20.51.20100710-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to
  when removing `diversion of /usr/bin/ld.bfd to /usr/bin/ld.bfd.single by binutils-multiarch'
  found `diversion of /usr/bin/ld.bfd to /usr/bin/ld.bfd.real by hardening-wrapper'
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess new post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/binutils-multiarch_2.20.51.20100710-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This error is alson present in Apttermlog.gz

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. This is fixed in hardening-wrapper 1.29 (bug 596136) and I confirm that it is fixed in maverick.
But we need to test the upgrade from Lucid to Maverick
the conflict appears in apt.log but the package is held during the upgrade
Investigating hardening-wrapper
Package hardening-wrapper has broken Conflicts on binutils-multiarch
  Considering binutils-multiarch 1 as a solution to hardening-wrapper -1
  Holding Back hardening-wrapper rather than change binutils-multiarch

From main.log
2010-08-05 16:30:56,805 DEBUG Upgradable, but held- back: hardening-wrapper mercurial-common libboost-dev libboost-serialization-dev mercurial

I'm adding an update-manager task for the upgrade.

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 613774 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

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