[12.04] libglib2.0-0 : Unable to open directory /usr/lib/gio/modules: Error opening directory '/usr/lib/gio/modules': No such file or directory

[Michael Basse]

The latest dist-upgrade on 12.04 is upgrading libglib2.0-0

This error comes up when running dist-upgrade

Unable to open directory /usr/lib/gio/modules: Error opening directory '/usr/lib/gio/modules': No such file or directory

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libglib2.0-0 2.31.16-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-15.24-generic 3.2.5
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-15-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 16 13:17:17 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110426)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: glib2.0
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-04 (74 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[yurx cherio (cherio)]

Getting same error when running regular "apt-get upgrade" on 12.04

[Eric Miao (eric.y.miao)]

This is caused by incorrect postinst script in libglib2.0-0. In debian/libglib2.0-0.postinst.in, around line 16:

          /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules|/usr/lib/gio/modules)
            # This is triggered everytime an application installs a GIO
            # module into /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules or the
            # backwards-compatible /usr/lib/gio/modules directory
            /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/gio-querymodules /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules /usr/lib/gio/modules
            ;;

While moved to multi-arch, /usr/lib/gio/modules could be non-existent, thus gio-querymodules will complain.

[Eric Miao (eric.y.miao)]

The attached patch will likely fix the problem.