update-manager crashed with gnome-games in _run_in_dialog(): Depends: quadrapassel but it is not installed

[Linards Ticmanis]

Binary package hint: update-manager

The quadrapassel / ubuntu-branding conflict obviously causes crashes, too.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.147.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.41-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 7 20:08:13 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/update-manager
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: update-manager crashed with gnome-games in _run_in_dialog(): Depends: quadrapassel but it is not installed
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-06 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip fax floppy fuse lp lpadmin netdev plugdev pulse pulse-access sambashare scanner tape video

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

To clarify, you got this error running a normal update on a 11.04 system?

[Linards Ticmanis (ticmanis)]

Yes, a normal update on a 11.04 beta system, which had been upgraded from 10.10 a few days before without issue.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Lets see an update:

sudo apt-get update 2>&1 | tee ~/Desktop/update1

Attach the output file to your next post.

[Linards Ticmanis (ticmanis)]

There it is.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Looks good. Now lets see an 'upgrade':

sudo apt-get upgrade 2>&1 | tee ~/Desktop/upgrade1

[Linards Ticmanis (ticmanis)]

There it comes, but there's not much in there, as my system is currently fully upgraded.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Thanks. Now post the output of:

apt-cache policy quadrapassel

[Linards Ticmanis (ticmanis)]

Ok.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

From the looks of it, the problem is corrected. The system is now confirming that the package is installed. Can you confirm?

Thanks.

[Linards Ticmanis (ticmanis)]

Obviously, and I could have told you that before. The problem with quadrapassel not being correctly installed was fixed within a day of it occurring. The point of this bug was that a mis-configured package shouldn't crash update-manager.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Alright now I see. Sorry about the misunderstanding. Is there a known way to reproduce this error on your machine? If there is, report back with a brief set of instructions explaining how to make the problem occur so I can go ahead and test it. This way, if it is indeed a bug, we can mark it to a proper confirmed status ASAP and get working on a fix.

[Linards Ticmanis (ticmanis)]

Well, as long as there are no packages with broken dependencies, unfortunately I don't know how to reproduce it. Is there a way to "go back in time" with the Ubuntu package system, to the point where the original quadrapassel problem existed? If not, I guess we'll have to wait for the next time there is a conflict in the package system.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

No way to 'go back' I am afraid. And I am not quite sure how I can purposely 'break' a dependency to test this. Well I will close this bug for now, but feel free to reopen it under "Status" when the time comes. Thanks!