Ubuntu
gnat-gps package

Error from update-manager when upgrading dapper to edgy

Bug #86699 reported by Paul Whittaker on 2007-02-21

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Software Updater	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	gnat-gps (Ubuntu)	Invalid	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

When I checked on my system's upgrade from Dapper to Edgy, two error dialogs had appeared. I assume they refer to the same error.

One dialog said:

Could not install 'gnat-gps-doc'

The upgrade aborts now. Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package
and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport.

subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

The other said:

Error:

Could not load icon

   Details: Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/svg_loader.so:
   /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/svg_loader.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
   directory

Despite the message about the upgrade aborting, the upgrade continued without further problems until all of the installed packages had been set up. It then displayed an error dialog which said:

Could not install the upgrades

The upgrade aborts now. Your system could be in an unusable state. A recovery
was run (dpkg --configure -a).

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the
files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bugreport.

installArchives() failed

The last output visible in the Terminal display said:

   Setting up language-pack-gnome-en-base (6.10+20061019) ...
    * Reloading GNOME Display Manager configuration...
   Setting up g++-4.1 (4.1.1-13ubuntu5) ...
   Setting up g++ (4.1.1-6ubuntu3) ...
   Setting up build-essential (11.3) ...
   Setting up libstdc++6-4.0-dev (4.0.3-4) ...
   Setting up xserver-xorg-video-via (0.2.1-0ubuntu4) ...
   Setting up xserver-xorg-driver-all (7.1.1ubuntu6.2) ...
   Errors were encountered while processing:
    gnat-gps-doc
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/__init__.py", line 740, in emit
       self.flush()
     File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/__init__.py", line 718, in flush
       self.stream.flush()
   IOError: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
   Setting up gnat-gps-doc (3.1.3-2ubuntu1) ...
   No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
   install-info(/usr/share/info/tutorial.info): unable to determine description for
    `dir' entry - giving up
   dpkg: error processing gnat-gps-doc (--configure):
    subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

After hitting the Close button on the error dialog, the installer exited, with no suggestion as to what to do next. A newbie would have been very lost at this point, in my opinion.

The package manager icon in the taskbar had changed to a 'reboot' (circle of arrows) indicator, so I rebooted, and everything seemed more or less fine. I'm having problems with the fonts at the moment (Bitstream Vera Sans Mono appears to have vanished), but that's a different bug I believe.

As there's (still) no button here for attaching any of the files requested, I'm going to hope that I can add them later. If not... well, at least you're not now looking at 200 pages of log file!