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package fontconfig 2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned

Bug #1624729 reported by Lucas Antonio on 2016-09-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1573322: several packages failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
ca-certificates (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
doc-base (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
dpkg (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
fontconfig (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
glib2.0 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
gnome-menus (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
systemd (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I installer in ubuntu 16.04 Cinnamon - sudo apt-get install cinnamon..... sudo apt-get install cinnamon-core

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: fontconfig 2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-36.55-generic 4.4.16
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-36-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 13 14:52:16 2016
ErrorMessage: triggers looping, abandoned
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-11 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.1
apt 1.2.12~ubuntu16.04.1
SourcePackage: fontconfig
Title: package fontconfig 2.11.94-0ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Lucas Antonio (gnulucasgamer) wrote on 2016-09-17:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (111.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (514 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (121.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (126.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (631 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
FontConfigLog.txt Edit (4.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (14.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote on 2016-09-19: Bug is not a security issue

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote on 2016-09-19:

Here's the bit from the logs about the looping triggers, this is the longest chain I recall seeing recently:

dpkg: cycle found while processing triggers:
chain of packages whose triggers are or may be responsible:
  gnome-menus -> ca-certificates
packages' pending triggers which are or may be unresolvable:
  fontconfig: /usr/share/fonts
  ca-certificates: update-ca-certificates
  gnome-menus: /usr/share/applications
  doc-base: /usr/share/doc-base
  libglib2.0-0:amd64: /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas