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package ncurses-base 5.7 20090803-2ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: dpkg: ../../src/filesdb.c:528: findnamenode: Assertion `(*pointerp)->name[0] == '/'' failed.

Bug #569444 reported by Barry Dryden on 2010-04-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #541595: [Master] package failed to install/upgrade: package is already installed and configured. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	dpkg (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: dpkg

upgrading 9.10 to new 10.04 LTS for amd64. Won't installl upgrade.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: ncurses-base 5.7+20090803-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.59-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 23 23:45:51 2010
ErrorMessage:
ErrorMessage: package ncurses-base is already installed and configured
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: dpkg
Title: package ncurses-base 5.7+20090803-2ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:

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Barry Dryden (brdmann) wrote on 2010-04-24:

Dependencies.txt Edit (510 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (5.8 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (23.8 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.gz Edit (681 bytes, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (12.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeSystemstatetargz.gz Edit (393.9 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz Edit (25.5 KiB, application/x-gzip)

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) on 2010-04-26

summary:

package ncurses-base 5.7 20090803-2ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:
+ dpkg: ../../src/filesdb.c:528: findnamenode: Assertion
+ `(*pointerp)->name[0] == '/'' failed.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2011-07-20:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 541595, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.