Postinst and postrm fail to complete leaving dpkg in a broken state

[Soumyadip Modak]

When installing mozilla-imagezoom, the postinst script fails with the following message:

Setting up mozilla-imagezoom (0.2.2-2) ...
Updating mozilla-thunderbird chrome registry...find: /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/defaults/profile/extensions/: No such file or directory
mv: accessing `/var/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/extensions/installed-extensions.txt': Too many levels of symbolic links
dpkg: error processing mozilla-imagezoom (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mozilla-imagezoom
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Similarly when removing it using apt-get remove mozilla-imagezoom, the process fails with the following error :

Removing mozilla-imagezoom ...
Updating mozilla-thunderbird chrome registry...find: /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/defaults/profile/extensions/: No such file or directory
mv: accessing `/var/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/extensions/installed-extensions.txt': Too many levels of symbolic links
dpkg: error processing mozilla-imagezoom (--remove):
 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mozilla-imagezoom
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Looking into /var/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/extensions, I found that installed-extensions.txt was a symbolic link pointing to itself.

[Soumyadip Modak (soumyadip)]

To find out which package supplied this symlink, I tried the follwing:
dpkg-query -S /var/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/extensions/installed-extensions.txt
whch returned:
dpkg: /var/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/extensions/installed-extensions.txt not found.

[Soumyadip Modak (soumyadip)]

Oh I forgot to mention my environment, I'm using Ubuntu Dapper Flight 4. Stock kernel and packages.

[DarkMageZ (darkmagez)]

yeah, i have sucessfully replicated this bug on accident.

[Yann Rouillard (yann-pleiades)]

I removed update-mozilla-* script from postrm and postinst and the package as, from what I read, theses scripts should not be necessary anymore.

The package installs correctly and works in firefox, however it doesn't seem to be correctly take in account by thunderbird...

[Alexandre Otto Strube (surak)]

Soumyadip, any progress with recent dapper updates?

[Soumyadip Modak (soumyadip)]

I'm very sorry, I've not tried to install the new package. I'll do so, and
I'll post updates to the current state of affairs

On 4/5/06, Alexandre Otto Strube <email address hidden> wrote:
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> Soumyadip, any progress with recent dapper updates?
> --
> Postinst and postrm fail to complete leaving dpkg in a broken state
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34490
>

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[Soumyadip Modak (soumyadip)]

Well I tried installing the package again. apt-cache policy mozilla-imagezoom has the same old package listed, nothing has been updated. Installing the package resulted in the same old mess, and I've to search for the imagezoom dpkg scripts and manually remove them in order to get dpkg and apt back in shape.
Yann, if you have made any updated package for mozilla-imagezoom, please get it into the Ubuntu repository.

[Yaroslav Halchenko (yarikoptic)]

Hi guys,

I am official maintainer in Debian of this package. If the issue still persists, I would love to help you to resolve it -- please get back to me about it (filing a bug on bugs.debian.org would be the best way to do so, follow up to this thread would work as well)

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

This has been fixed in Edgy.

[Vassilis Pandis (pandisv)]

status Fix Released

I cannot reproduce it anymore. It installs and removes fine (apt-get install mozilla-imagezoom and apt-get remove mozilla-imagezoom respectively). If this is still a problem, please reopen the bug ...