update-manager error when upgrading php5-idn

[Thue Janus Kristensen]

Binary package hint: update-manager

When upgrading my Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04, I got the following error:

[...long install process...]
Errors were encountered while processing:
 php5-idn
Exception during pm.DoInstall(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Could not install the upgrades

The upgrade is now aborted. Your system could be in an unusable
state. A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and
include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report.
E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Setting up php5-idn (1.2b-5.3ubuntu1) ...
*** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf, but
             the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer
             script should be fixed to not stop debconf before calling ucf,
             and pass it this parameter. For now, ucf will revert to using
             old-style, non-debconf prompting. Ugh!

             Please inform the package maintainer about this problem.
Need debconf to interact
dpkg: error processing php5-idn (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 php5-idn

Upgrade complete

The upgrade is completed but there were errors during the upgrade
process.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.65-server
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-server x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 3 18:10:49 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: update-manager

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Sorry for such a delayed response. Are you still having the problem?

[Thue Janus Kristensen (thuejk)]

Yes. I just tried installing php5-idn on my fully updated Ubuntu 10.04.2, and it failed:

t@t ~> sudo aptitude install php5-idn
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  php5-idn
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 15,7kB of archives. After unpacking 106kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe php5-idn 1.2b-5.3ubuntu1 [15,7kB]
Fetched 15,7kB in 0s (54,3kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package php5-idn.
(Reading database ... 95828 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking php5-idn (from .../php5-idn_1.2b-5.3ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up php5-idn (1.2b-5.3ubuntu1) ...
*** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf, but
             the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer
             script should be fixed to not stop debconf before calling ucf,
             and pass it this parameter. For now, ucf will revert to using
             old-style, non-debconf prompting. Ugh!

             Please inform the package maintainer about this problem.
Need debconf to interact
dpkg: error processing php5-idn (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up php5-idn (1.2b-5.3ubuntu1) ...
*** WARNING: ucf was run from a maintainer script that uses debconf, but
             the script did not pass --debconf-ok to ucf. The maintainer
             script should be fixed to not stop debconf before calling ucf,
             and pass it this parameter. For now, ucf will revert to using
             old-style, non-debconf prompting. Ugh!

             Please inform the package maintainer about this problem.
Need debconf to interact
dpkg: error processing php5-idn (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 php5-idn
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done

t@t ~> cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS \n \l

t@t ~>

[Thue Janus Kristensen (thuejk)]

The same problem is also been reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php-idn/+bug/694094

[Thue Janus Kristensen (thuejk)]

And here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dokuwiki/+bug/596298

[Thue Janus Kristensen (thuejk)]

And the warning seems to have been fixed in this bug (but probably not included in 10.04): https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/php-idn/+bug/371047

[Thue Janus Kristensen (thuejk)]

Purging the old configuration "aptitude purge php5-idn", and then reinstalling, makes the package installable.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Thanks for linking those other reports. Much appreciated and helpful! I am going to move this to the php5 package. It seems that would be more appropriate than update-manager. The other user had the same problem because the package he/she tried to install had php5-idn as a dependency. php5-idn is what throws up the error. Marking back to "New" as well.

[Ondřej Surý (ondrej)]

php5-idn should be really removed from archive. The upstream development is dead and the package was orphaned in Debian anyway.

php5-intl provides some of the functionality.

[Ondřej Surý (ondrej)]

2RedSingularity: please always check source package. The source package for php5-idn is not php5, but php-idn.

[RedSingularity (redsingularity)]

Ondrej: Thanks for moving it. When I was searching for the package I was using the number 5 thus the correct package was not showing up.