gnome-desktop-environment has Broken packages in Karmic

Bug #424771 reported by Leo Iannacone
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This bug affects 16 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned
Nominated for Karmic by stevewin
Nominated for Lucid by stevewin

Bug Description

gnome meta package depends on gnome-desktop-environment.
gnome-desktop-environment depends on fast-user-switch-applet.

fast-user-switch-applet is not present in the repos.

sudo apt-get install gnome
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnome: Depends: gnome-desktop-environment (= 1:2.22.2~4ubuntu6) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnome-desktop-environment: Depends: fast-user-switch-applet (>= 2.22.0) but it is not installable
                             Recommends: fam but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

sudo apt-get install fast-user-switch-applet
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package fast-user-switch-applet is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  gdm
E: Package fast-user-switch-applet has no installation candidate

apt-cache madison gnome
gnome | 1:2.22.2~4ubuntu6 | http://it.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
meta-gnome2 | 1:2.22.2~4ubuntu6 | http://it.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Sources

apt-cache madison gnome-desktop-environment
gnome-desktop-environment | 1:2.22.2~4ubuntu6 | http://it.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
meta-gnome2 | 1:2.22.2~4ubuntu6 | http://it.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Sources

Changed in meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
summary: - Gnome has Broken packages in Karmic
+ gnome-desktop-environment has Broken packages in Karmic
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cazacugmihai (cazacugmihai) wrote :

sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnome-desktop-environment: Depends: fast-user-switch-applet (>= 2.22.0) but it is not installable
                             Recommends: fam but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

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cazacugmihai (cazacugmihai) wrote :

$ apt-cache madison gnome
     gnome | 1:2.22.2~4ubuntu6 | http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
meta-gnome2 | 1:2.22.2~4ubuntu6 | http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Sources

$ apt-cache madison gnome-desktop-environment
gnome-desktop-environment | 1:2.22.2~4ubuntu6 | http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
meta-gnome2 | 1:2.22.2~4ubuntu6 | http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Sources

$ uname -a
Linux mcazacu 2.6.31-10-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 8 12:33:03 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

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Dan Armak (danarmak) wrote :

This is still present. Does anyone know what causes it and how to fix / work around?

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Leo Iannacone (l3on) wrote :

Instead of install gnome metapackage, install the ubuntu-desktop package.

R.M. (ry-ryno27)
Changed in meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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stevewin (stevewin) wrote :

The gnome metapackage is very useful/important for appying to lower capacity/embedded systems as a more lightweight alternative to the likes of ubuntu-desktop. Please fix this.

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Gene Vayngrib (gene-vayngrib) wrote :

stevewin is right. I have assembled only the minimum set of packages enough to manage Ubuntu Karmic server on EC2. Small and medium-high-cpu EC2 AMIs have only 1.7G RAM. This makes it critical to have a desktop that consumes minimum amount of RAM. Also, bells and whistles greatly slow down VNC, FreeNX, so desktop must be as plain as possible.

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Henson Sturgill (hdstur) wrote :

Just did a minimal install of the Lucid Lynx beta. Then installed gnome-core and gdm. I now get applet errors for fast-user-switch-applet (which is not installed) every time I boot. When I try to install it I get a message that it depends on gdm (which is already installed). Here's the error:

fast-user-switch-applet: Depends: gdm but it is not going to be installed

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Ralph Corderoy (ralph-inputplus) wrote :

Just hit this after a 9.04 -> 9.10 upgrade from the Alternate CD. It's still causing problems.

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Leo Iannacone (l3on) wrote :

This bug has been fixed since ubuntu maverick 10.10

Changed in meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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