upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 crashes complitly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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dpkg (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Because of this bug upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 crashes completely in middle. This made my computer completely useless brick.
And every thing because two empty lines in configuration files …
- !!!LOG!!!
Log started: 2012-04-27 20:03:17
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/
blank line in value of field 'Description'^M
Log ended: 2012-04-27 20:03:18
Log started: 2012-04-27 20:07:00
Setting up dpkg (1.16.1.2ubuntu7) ...^M
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/
blank line in value of field 'Description'^M
Log ended: 2012-04-27 20:07:03
Reason:
- there was two empty lines in files:
/var/lib/
/var/lib/
- this files was look like this:
BEGIN>>>
Package: ubueasy
Priority: extra
Section: ubueasy
Installed-Size: 400
Maintainer: Garhuy <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Version: 4.0-garhuy3
Depends: yad | zenity, policykit-1, libdconf0, libdconf-dbus-1-0, libnotify-bin, synaptic
Size: 265988
Description: ubueasy - oprogramowanie ułatwiające codzienną pracę w Ubuntu
ubueasy zostało przygotowane dla nowych użytkowników systemu Ubuntu. Program ułatwia początkową konfigurację dla Polskich użytkowników systemu, instaluje oprogramowanie, dodaje nowe repozytoria oraz ułatwia start z Ubuntu.
www.ubueasy.tk
Homepage: http://
<<<END
- but it should look like this:
BEGIN>>>
Package: ubueasy
Priority: extra
Section: ubueasy
Installed-Size: 400
Maintainer: Garhuy <email address hidden>
Architecture: all
Version: 4.0-garhuy3
Depends: yad | zenity, policykit-1, libdconf0, libdconf-dbus-1-0, libnotify-bin, synaptic
Size: 265988
Description: ubueasy - oprogramowanie ułatwiające codzienną pracę w Ubuntu
ubueasy zostało przygotowane dla nowych użytkowników systemu Ubuntu. Program ułatwia początkową konfigurację dla Polskich użytkowników systemu, instaluje oprogramowanie, dodaje nowe repozytoria oraz ułatwia start z Ubuntu. www.ubueasy.tk
Homepage: http://
<<<END
In section Description: it was empty line, after empty line it was string “www.ubueasy.tk” and after that was line Homepage: ...
Because of this error upgrade crashed
after reboot I tried to use apt-get upgrade but it show error about missing dependencies
after running comand:
sudo apt-get -f install
I get message about error and empty lines in files:
/var/lib/
/var/lib/
After manual remove of empty lines in description command "sudo apt-get -f install" Started working
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu7
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: a0ea5de23aa9609
CheckboxSystem: daed2f3d6643b4a
Date: Fri Apr 27 20:14:56 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dpkg
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-26 (0 days ago)
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.