Hardy to Intrepid beta upgrade fails due to rarian-compat

[Joey Stanford]

Hi,

On two machines, a laptop and a desktop, running sudo update-manager -c -d fails to upgrade from 8.04.1 to 8.10 beta. Both systems are emt64 Intel's with core duo chips. Both are System76 machines. I've attached my dist-upgrade logs. The problem appears to be unmet dependencies.

Installing with the beta CD works fine and is the solution to fix the broken state of the computer (just ensure you don't format the disks and that you do assign the drives correctly).

Joey

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thanks for your bug report. Your log shows rarian-compat fails to configure very early on, which a lot of other stuff depends on

dpkg: error processing rarian-compat (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From main.log:

2008-10-04 10:39:37,124 DEBUG got a conffile-prompt from dpkg for file: '/etc/security/limits.conf' 2008-10-04 10:46:06,551 WARNING no activity on terminal for 240 seconds (Preparing to configure libpam-modules)
2008-10-04 11:11:39,986 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'rarian-compat': 'subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1'
2008-10-04 11:11:40,014 DEBUG running apport_pkgfailure() rarian-compat: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
2008-10-04 11:11:40,045 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'rarian-compat': 'subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1'
2008-10-04 11:55:28,456 WARNING no activity on terminal for 240 seconds (Configuring rarian-compat)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Michael, could you take a look at this?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

This is bug 256131

The error is
Setting up rarian-compat (0.8.1-1ubuntu1) ...

update-xmlcatalog: error: entity already registered

dpkg: error processing rarian-compat (--configure):

 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

but I'm unable to reproduce it when upgrading from a fresh hardy setup.