"pwgen: not found" during clean install

[JP Vossen]

Binary package hint: mythtv

Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

mythtv-common:
  Installed: 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Clean install of Lucid (regular, not Mythbuntu), installing only mythtv-frontend gave me:

/tmp/mythtv-common.config.142661: 23: pwgen: not found
mythtv-common failed to preconfigure, with exit status 127

And this is true, pwgen was not installed. But it *is* a dependency and it *was* pulled into the install and it is *now* installed (after the install finished). So there is a dependency order problem, and maybe this bug belongs to aptitude, and not mythtv-common...

Easy enough to work-around:

1) Before you install and hit this problem:
$ sudo aptitude install pwgen
$ sudo aptitude install mythtv-frontend

2) After you have tried to install, and have hit this problem:
$ sudo aptitude install pwgen
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-common

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: mythtv-common 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jun 11 01:04:32 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427.1)
Installed_mythplugins-dbg: 0.0
Installed_mythtv-dbg: 0.0
MythTVDirectoryPermissions: Error: command ['ls', '-l', '/var/lib/mythtv'] failed with exit code 2: ls: cannot access /var/lib/mythtv: No such file or directory
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mythtv

[Nick Jenkins (nickpj)]

Ditto, same problem. Copy/paste of aptitude's terminal output is attached, including the pwgen error.

[MarcRandolph (mrand)]

Howdy, and thank you for helping to improve Mythbuntu by reporting this issue. I have not yet attempted to reproduce this in 11.10, but I do see it when adding mythtv to a base Ubuntu 11.04 system.

[Thomas Mashos (tgm4883)]

I believe that we should be able to fix this with a predepends, but does
this actually happen with the newest builds? Not 0.23?

On Oct 21, 2011 8:46 AM, "MarcRandolph" <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Howdy, and thank you for helping to improve Mythbuntu by reporting this
> issue. I have not yet attempted to reproduce this in 11.10, but I do
> see it when adding mythtv to a base Ubuntu 11.04 system.
>
> ** Changed in: mythtv (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: mythtv (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Triaged
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/592521
>
> Title:
> "pwgen: not found" during clean install
>
> Status in “mythtv” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: mythtv
>
> Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
> Release: 10.04
>
> mythtv-common:
> Installed: 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
> Candidate: 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
> Version table:
> *** 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2 0
> 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/multiverse
Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
>
> Clean install of Lucid (regular, not Mythbuntu), installing only
mythtv-frontend gave me:
>
> /tmp/mythtv-common.config.142661: 23: pwgen: not found
> mythtv-common failed to preconfigure, with exit status 127
>
> And this is true, pwgen was not installed. But it *is* a dependency
> and it *was* pulled into the install and it is *now* installed (after
> the install finished). So there is a dependency order problem, and
> maybe this bug belongs to aptitude, and not mythtv-common...
>
> Easy enough to work-around:
>
> 1) Before you install and hit this problem:
> $ sudo aptitude install pwgen
> $ sudo aptitude install mythtv-frontend
>
> 2) After you have tried to install, and have hit this problem:
> $ sudo aptitude install pwgen
> $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure mythtv-common
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: mythtv-common 0.23.0+fixes24158-0ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Fri Jun 11 01:04:32 2010
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386
(20100427.1)
> Installed_mythplugins-dbg: 0.0
> Installed_mythtv-dbg: 0.0
> MythTVDirectoryPermissions: Error: command ['ls', '-l',
'/var/lib/mythtv'] failed with exit code 2: ls: cannot access
/var/lib/mythtv: No such file or directory
> ProcEnviron:
> LC_COLLATE=C
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: mythtv
>
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[Hans Harhoff Andersen (hansharhoff)]

It just happened for me in standard 12.04 LTS (upgraded from previous versions of Ubuntu).