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package man-db 2.7.0.2-5 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned

Bug #1415327 reported by Jonathan Mounier on 2015-01-28

This bug affects 15 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	man-db (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	High	Unassigned

Bug Description

did not upgrade to 15.04

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: man-db 2.7.0.2-5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.18.0-11.12-generic 3.18.3
Uname: Linux 3.18.0-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
ApportVersion: 2.15.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 27 23:42:16 2015
DuplicateSignature: package:man-db:2.7.0.2-5:triggers looping, abandoned
ErrorMessage: triggers looping, abandoned
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-15 (13 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.7.0.2-5 failed to install/upgrade: triggers looping, abandoned
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Jonathan Mounier (thunderpr) wrote on 2015-01-28:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (67.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (188.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (212.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (791 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote on 2015-01-28:

This may be a hardware issue, please try to discover the cause of the following messages in your logs:

[ 1062.198382] pcieport 0000:00:03.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=0018(Receiver ID)
[ 1062.198387] pcieport 0000:00:03.0: device [8086:2f08] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
[ 1062.198391] pcieport 0000:00:03.0: [ 0] Receiver Error (First)
[ 1063.672409] pcieport 0000:00:03.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=0018
[ 1063.672422] pcieport 0000:00:03.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=0018(Receiver ID)
[ 1063.672426] pcieport 0000:00:03.0: device [8086:2f08] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
[ 1063.672430] pcieport 0000:00:03.0: [ 0] Receiver Error (First)
[ 1065.793117] pcieport 0000:00:03.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=0018

Thanks

information type:

Private Security → Public

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2015-01-28

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-02-02:

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

Changed in man-db (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) on 2015-02-03

Changed in man-db (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2015-02-05:

From DpkgTerminalLog.txt:

dpkg: cycle found while processing triggers:
chain of packages whose triggers are or may be responsible:
  bamfdaemon -> libc-bin
packages' pending triggers which are or may be unresolvable:
  man-db: /usr/share/man
  libc-bin: ldconfig
  bamfdaemon: /usr/share/applications
  gnome-icon-theme: /usr/share/icons/gnome
dpkg: error processing package man-db (--remove):
triggers looping, abandoned

Luke Faraone (lfaraone) on 2015-02-16

Changed in man-db (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → In Progress
assignee:	nobody → Luke Faraone (lfaraone)

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Luke Faraone (lfaraone) wrote on 2015-02-17:

Unable to reproduce this on an upgrade from 14.04->14.10->15.04 with latest packages. If you can, please feel free to reopne.

Changed in man-db (Ubuntu):
assignee:	Luke Faraone (lfaraone) → nobody
status:	In Progress → Incomplete

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Andriopoulos Nikolaos (sirnicolas21) wrote on 2015-02-20:

just happent on me also on 14.10->15.04, i will have to add that the package update procedure crashed and the upgrade never finished normally.... i cannot find any logs so i can see why it failed.

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Andriopoulos Nikolaos (sirnicolas21) wrote on 2015-02-20:

main.log Edit (57.2 KiB, text/plain)

upgrade log file.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2015-03-24:

dpkg trigger cycle detection was an experimental feature in Debian, and subsequently Ubuntu, was has now been removed from dpkg. Therefore, this bug report is no longer valid and I'm marking it as such.

If you are interested in more information about this issue you could look at:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776910#42