[unmet dependencies] gnome-panel requires gnome-panel-data (<1:2.22), but 1:2.22.0 is installed

[Sense Egbert Hofstede]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

After I upgraded to hardy heron I noticed that ubuntu-desktop and some other (quite vital) packages weren't installed. This was caused by a dependency problem of gnome-panel.
gnome-panel requires gnome-panel-data (<1:2.22), but gnome-panel-data is already 1:2.22.0-0ubuntu1. gnome-panel is 1:2.21.92-0ubuntu2
Please update fix this as soon as possible. Working without panels isn't very easy. ;)

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

EDIT: I'm using the amd64 version.

[Nigel Cunningham (nigelc)]

+1. AMD64 here too, same symptoms.

[Nigel Cunningham (nigelc)]

Err. Correction. Forgot I've got a new laptop. Not AMD64, but 64 bit.

By the way, how does this manage to happen? Surely you guys would have procedures in place to make sure dependency breakage like this doesn't occur?...

[Jorge Castro (jorge)]

Nigel, if you see the bug affects you don't just "+1" it, move the status to confirmed so it gets on someone's radar. Thanks!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the new version didn't build yet on amd64, not a bug

[Nigel Cunningham (nigelc)]

Jorge: Sorry! Will do from now on.

Sebastien: Invalid? That's nonsense. The new version of gnome panel data has been released without a matching gnome panel, and apparently with dependencies set up such that it's possible for people to end up with panel-data automatically upgrade and gnome-panel automatically uninstalled. If that's not a bug in the packages themselves, it's at least a bug in procedure.

Now, how do I reopen this?...

[Nigel Cunningham (nigelc)]

Reopening, as changing the status to invalid was invalid. This should be high importance, too. The net result is a black background with no panels and no desktop menus. The only way you'd know anything is working is the fact that compiz still gets started, and it's shortcut keys still work. Anyone who upgrades to current Hardy and uses gnome is going to be hit by this.

[Nigel Cunningham (nigelc)]

The package has been built now. It's not available via Synaptic at the time of writing, but I manually found and installed it, together with gnome-about, nautilus and gnome-applets and things are much better. The only hiccup was that the latest deskbar-applet has failed to build, but that would be a separate bug.

Thanks!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

those issues are expected due to arch all and any difference when the new version builds on i386 and not on other architecture yet, that's not a bug since there is nothing to change just to wait that it get built, nothing is uninstalled and no session is broken when not using dist-upgrade and accepted to remove softwares there

[Nigel Cunningham (nigelc)]

Thanks for your reply.

Sorry, but I found your last comment hard to parse. I've always done updates by clicking "Mark all upgrades" in Synaptic and applying what is selected. Are you saying that's the right thing to do and shouldn't cause breakage, or that dist-upgrade should be the way to go?

Thanks again for your replies and your patience.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you should not use this option which removes softwares but rather use the safe update or read what is going to be done during the upgrade