Warty -> Hoary upgrade problems.

[Boris Fersing]

Hi,

I'm upgrating from warty ppc to hoary ppc, the dist-upgrade fails with this error :

Preparing to replace mozilla-firefox 0.99+1.0PR.1+revertedto0.9.3-0ubuntu3
(using .../mozilla-firefox_1.0.2-0ubuntu2_powerpc.deb) ...
rm: cannot remove `/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/defaults/pref': Is a directory
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.2-0ubuntu2_powerpc.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mozilla-firefox_1.0.2-0ubuntu2_powerpc.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thanks.

-Boris-

[Thom May (thombot)]

Nominating as RC

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I did warty->hoary upgrade tests on amd64 and powerpc yesterday, and didn't
encounter this bug. Is the cause apparent?

[Thom May (thombot)]

There is code in the preinst to deal with this directory specifically:
if [ "$1" = "upgrade" ]; then
    if [ -d "/usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/defaults/pref" ]; then
        rm -rf /usr/lib/mozilla-firebird/defaults/pref
    fi

Boris, what was the exact command line you were running to do the upgrade?

[Boris Fersing (kernel-panic)]

I was just running "apt-get dist-upgrade"

[Thom May (thombot)]

Just performed a full upgrade and encountered no problems; I'm moving the
deletion outside the upgrade case just in case.

[Thom May (thombot)]

This was "fixed" (in that the code to remove the troublesome directory was run
regardless, rather than just during upgrades) in ubuntu4 and ubuntu5 of firefox.