package firefox 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package firefox is already installed and configured

[Steve Murphy]

I hope the automatic forwards you the appropriate messages, but my dist-upgrade to 13.10 had problems because of firefox.
I do have it running at the time of upgrade, but it never tried to shut it down or anything. I didn't write down the messages, sorry!

As a result, the 13.10 upgrade from 13.04 seems to have aborted, and skipped the cleanup step. I don't know
if this will cause problems later or not.

I just did a manual apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, and it installed a firefox 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 (suing .../firefox_25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1_amd64.deb) ...

...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  firefox
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/29.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 329 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 409190 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace firefox 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 (using .../firefox_25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement firefox ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for mime-support ...
Setting up firefox (25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox ...
Please restart all running instances of firefox, or you will experience problems.

which seems to have went just fine.

murf

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: firefox 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-33.48-generic 3.8.13.11
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-33-generic x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: murf 2184 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: murf 2184 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: murf 2184 F...m pulseaudio
BuildID: 20131028112627
CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found.
Channel: Unavailable
Date: Tue Nov 19 21:39:47 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:firefox:25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.04.1:ErrorMessage: package firefox is already installed and configured
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: package firefox is already installed and configured
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-05 (76 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.134.1 dev eth0 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.134.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.134.233 metric 1
IwConfig:
 eth0 no wireless extensions.

 lo no wireless extensions.
MarkForUpload: True
NoProfiles: True
PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
RfKill:
 0: hci0: Bluetooth
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: dpkg
Title: package firefox 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: package firefox is already installed and configured
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-11-20 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 03/14/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: FC
dmi.board.name: GA-880GM-USB3
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrFC:bd03/14/2011:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnGA-880GM-USB3:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnGA-880GM-USB3:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: GA-880GM-USB3
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Here is the error from when firefox was being upgraded:

Preparing to replace firefox 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 (using .../firefox_25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1_amd64.deb) ...^M
awk: error while loading shared libraries: libsigsegv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory^M
Exception BrokenPipeError: BrokenPipeError(32, 'Broken pipe') in <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'> ignored^M
awk: error while loading shared libraries: libsigsegv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory^M
Exception BrokenPipeError: BrokenPipeError(32, 'Broken pipe') in <_io.TextIOWrapper name='<stdout>' mode='w' encoding='UTF-8'> ignored^M
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/firefox_25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):^M
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 127^M
Please restart all running instances of firefox, or you will experience problems.^M

[dino99 (9d9)]

This is no more a supported version now