package bzip2 1.0.5-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:

[Inferno84]

Binary package hint: bzip2

Update from 9.04 installed 10 minutes earlier. Home folder was not formatted, otherwise clean install.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Nov 5 14:37:35 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: package bzip2 is already installed and configured
Package: bzip2 1.0.5-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: bzip2
Title: package bzip2 1.0.5-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

I see multiple odd things in the log:
dpkg: status database area is locked by another process

that seem to indicate that synaptic or some other software is running concurrently

dpkg: error processing libdb4.7 (--configure):
 package libdb4.7 is already installed and configured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libdb4.7
this seems to indicate that dpkg --configure libdb4.7 was run when it was already configured, and I think we should ignore such failures (perhaps we already do?)

The same thing happens near bzip2:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpython2.6:
 libpython2.6 depends on python2.6 (= 2.6.4-0ubuntu1); however:
  Package python2.6 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libpython2.6 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: error processing bzip2 (--configure):
 package bzip2 is already installed and configured

but I suspect the apport output might confuse parsing of the error.

The only real error I see in this log is:
Preparing to replace python2.6 2.6.2-0ubuntu1 (using .../python2.6_2.6.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python2.6 ...
Preparing to replace python2.6-minimal 2.6.2-0ubuntu1 (using .../python2.6-minimal_2.6.4-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement python2.6-minimal ...
dpkg: status database area is locked by another process

which seems to have broken python2.6 libpython2.6 python python-support etc., apparently due to another tool being launched during the upgrade. However I dont know which tool causes packages like bzip2 to get --configured when these already are.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.