'Software index is broken' after upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy

[Dan McCormick]

After upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy an error appears to have occurred with upgrade of mono-xsp
that now has the 'software index' broken leaving me unable to Add/Remove software.

Error message is...
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Software index is broken

It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package
manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f" in a terminal to fix
this issue at first.
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Neither Synaptic nor apt-get will fix the problem for me (information provided below).
So how do I proceed?

When I run the Synaptic package manager it shows the following 'Broken Dependencies'
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Package | Installed Version | Latest Version | Description
mono-xsp 1.2.1-1ubuntu1 1.2.4-1.1ubunutu1 simple web server to run...
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The Synaptic package manager allows options of 'upgrade', 'removal' and 'complete removal'
but attempts to perform these options all result in failure.

Apply 'upgrade' and we get
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E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mono-xsp_1.2.4-1.1ubuntu1_all.deb: subprocess
pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
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Apply 'removal' or 'complete removal' and we get
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E: mono-xsp: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
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When I run "sudo apt-get install -f" I get the following information
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libcairo-ruby libatk1-ruby libswfdec0.3 libflac++5c2 liboggflac3 libjack0.100.0-0 libglib2-ruby
libpango1-ruby libgdk-pixbuf2-ruby librexml-ruby mono-xsp-base mono-xsp libgtk2-ruby
libquicktime0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  mono-xsp
The following packages will be upgraded:
  mono-xsp
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/69.7kB of archives.
After unpacking 4096B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 150523 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mono-xsp 1.2.1-1ubuntu1 (using .../mono-xsp_1.2.4-1.1ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
 * Stopping XSP WebServer mono-xsp /etc/init.d/mono-xsp: 95: Syntax error: Bad fd number
invoke-rc.d: initscript mono-xsp, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mono-xsp_1.2.4-1.1ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
postinst failed `abort-upgrade'
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mono-xsp_1.2.4-1.1ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

It seems like stopping the old mono-xsp service fails.
I could not reproduce it by installing it from gutsy and stopping it.

Do you have manually edited the init script?

Please attach your current /etc/init.d/mono-xsp.

[Dan McCormick (dan-mccormick)]

> It seems like stopping the old mono-xsp service fails.
> I could not reproduce it by installing it from gutsy and stopping it.
>
> Do you have manually edited the init script?
>
> Please attach your current /etc/init.d/mono-xsp.
>

I have not manually edited the init script for mono-xsp (or any of the init scripts for that matter).

My current init file has been attached.

[Dan McCormick (dan-mccormick)]

Managed to fix software index.

1) get PID of offending daemon

     sudo ps aux | grep -v grep | grep 'xsp.exe' | cut -c 10-15

2) manually kill offending daemon

3) sudo apt-get update

4) sudo apt-get install -f

Still don't understand why the automated update procedure got me into the bad state, but as far as I'm concerned at this point we can consider this issue closed.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I've thought that the 95 in "95: Syntax error: Bad fd number" would refer to the line number in the init script, but it does not.

[Mads Peter Rommedahl (lhademmor)]

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