Update of package tzdata failed

[lsmod]

I tried a system update on Lucid AMD64 and now everything hangs on the package tzdata.
Everytime the package is to be installed the package-manager hangs.

After that i must manually cleanup the lock files but the installation is not clean and could not be repaired.
What can i do?

# apt-get install tzdata
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut
Status-Informationen einlesen... Fertig
Die folgenden Pakete werden aktualisiert:
  tzdata
1 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 4 nicht aktualisiert.
1 nicht vollständig installiert oder entfernt.
Es müssen noch 0B von 677kB an Archiven heruntergeladen werden.
Nach dieser Operation werden 4.096B Plattenplatz zusätzlich benutzt.
Vorkonfiguration der Pakete ...
Wähle vormals abgewähltes Paket tzdata.
(Lese Datenbank ... 95966 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Vorbereiten zum Ersetzen von tzdata 2010l-0ubuntu0.10.04 (durch .../tzdata_2010m-0ubuntu0.10.04_all.deb) ...
Entpacke Ersatz für tzdata ...

English translation of output courtesy of Google Translate:

Reading package lists ... Finish
Dependency Tree
Reading state information ... Finish
The following packages will be upgraded:
  tzdata
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives or of 677KB.
After this operation 4.096B disk space will be used.
Pre-installation packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package tzdata.
(Reading database ... 95 966 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace tzdata 2010l-0ubuntu0.10.04 (by .../tzdata_2010m-0ubuntu0.10.04_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement tzdata ...

[lsmod (forum+ubuntu)]

Can you please tell me why this bug report is invalid?

Maybe this package is ok but then there is a problem with the package manager.
Now i can't install any package any more because dpkg says it MUST install this package.
Even if i set this pckage on hold.

I have no idea how to fix this problem?

The problem begins with the installation of iotop (refer to Bug 655553).
This package is definitely broken with an uncorrect filelist.

[David Planella (dpm)]

El dl 11 de 10 de 2010 a les 08:44 +0000, en/na lsmod va escriure:
> Can you please tell me why this bug report is invalid?
>

The bug was not closed. I reassigned the bug to the correct Ubuntu
package (tzdata), and closed the ubuntu-translations bug because it was
not an issue that was related to translations.

Please be patient until the tzdata maintainers have had the chance to
look a the issue.

> Maybe this package is ok but then there is a problem with the package manager.
> Now i can't install any package any more because dpkg says it MUST install this package.
> Even if i set this pckage on hold.
>
> I have no idea how to fix this problem?
>
> The problem begins with the installation of iotop (refer to Bug 655553).
> This package is definitely broken with an uncorrect filelist.
>

For more help on solving this problem, I'd recommend trying the forums
as well:

  http://ubuntuforums.org/

Thanks!

--
David Planella
Ubuntu Translations Coordinator
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[lsmod (forum+ubuntu)]

Now i understand - sorry!
I have opened the bug in the wrong area.

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Hi lsmod! Thanks for your report and I'm sorry you are having this problem. So, the output that you paste in the description seems to indicate that the tzdata package is installing correctly. Is that not the case? Are you saying that "apt-get install tzdata" is never returning after the "Entpacke Ersatz für tzdata ..." output line? Please let me know and I can try to investigate further. Also please report back if in fact the problem has been resolved for you.

Thanks very much!
Gary

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

If you are in fact still having a problem installing tzdata, could you please type the following at the command line and paste the result here? Thanks again!

  sudo apt-get install tzdata -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true

[lsmod (forum+ubuntu)]

There was a problem after updating the KDE-libs and i rolled back to a previous backup.
After the last manual update excluding the KDE-libs it seems that the problem has gone.

~$ dpkg -l | grep tzdata
ii tzdata 2010m-0ubuntu0.10.04 time zone and daylight-saving time data
ii tzdata-java 2010m-0ubuntu0.10.04 time zone and daylight-saving time data for

But i have the same problem on another PC with a complete other (new) installation.
I will check it there.

[lsmod (forum+ubuntu)]

I have opened additional a bug report at cups now.
http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3711+P0+S-2+C0+I0+E0+M20+Q

Today i tried just to print a text-file with the lp command.

$ lp test.txt
Anfrage-ID ist Okipage_14ex–18 (1 Datei(en))

Here it is the same. The file is not transferred to the printer.

[lsmod (forum+ubuntu)]

Oh please remove my last comment. I posted in the wrong bug report.

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

@lsmod, hi, so please be sure to report back here if you are indeed still having a problem updating tzdata. From what I can tell in the set of comments, it seems that problem has been resolved? Please let us know. And thanks!

[lsmod (forum+ubuntu)]

I have done another update today.
It works perfect.

Thank you!
I think the bug can be closed.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Fixed then, Thanks for your feedback.

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

@lsmod, that's great to hear! Thanks for reporting back to let us know. Please be sure to report any other issues or problems you may encounter in the future. Your help is much appreciated.

Gary