pycentral crashed with OSError in prepare()

[Brian Murray]

Binary package hint: python-central

1) Hardy Heron
2) bzrtools_1.3.0-2ubuntu1

This happened to me after the following sequence of events:

bdmurray@flash:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  bzrtools: Depends: bzr (< 1.3~) but 1.3-1 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
bdmurray@flash:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.24-8 python-setuptools kde-style-polyester libxklavier11
  libgtkhtml2.0-cil linux-headers-2.6.24-12-generic linux-headers-2.6.24-12
  python-dsv gtk2-engines-murrine python-serial linux-headers-2.6.24-8-generic
  hwdb-client-kde gnome-vfs-obexftp python-xml libntfs-3g16 libhal-dev
  libhal-storage-dev libkdcraw2
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  bzrtools
Suggested packages:
  pybaz
Recommended packages:
  graphviz
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bzrtools
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/73.6kB of archives.
After this operation, 8192B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 473277 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace bzrtools 1.2.0-1ubuntu3 (using .../bzrtools_1.3.0-2ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1813, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1807, in main
    rv = action.run(global_options)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1306, in run
    pkg.prepare(used_runtimes, old_used_runtimes, old_pkg)
  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1000, in prepare
    link_cmd(f1, f2)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bzrtools_1.3.0-2ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/bzrtools_1.3.0-2ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 5 10:01:18 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pycentral
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: python-central 0.6.1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/pycentral pkgprepare bzrtools
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/pycentral', 'pkgprepare', 'bzrtools']
SourcePackage: python-central
Title: pycentral crashed with OSError in prepare()
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-12-generic x86_64
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