sed: Upgrade fails

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Automatically imported from Debian bug report #281740 http://bugs.debian.org/281740

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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:20:31 -0500 (EST)
From: "John A. Martin" <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: sed: Upgrade fails

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Package: sed
Version: 4.1.2-2
Severity: normal

/usr/bin/aptitude update&&/usr/bin/aptitude -P dist-upgrade;date

[[ ... ]]

Preconfiguring packages ...
Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up
dpkg: error processing sed (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover:
Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description for `dir' entry - giving up
dpkg: error processing sed (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sed

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-k6
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages sed depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:35:40 +0100
From: Marc Dequènes (Duck) <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: severity of 281740 is serious

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.4
severity 281740 serious

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This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 10337.

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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:31:16 -0400
From: BG - Ben Armstrong <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Reverting to 4.1.2-1 succeeds

I hit this one too. I reverted to 4.1.2-1, and the issue was resolved.
I then put sed on hold, as this holds up the rest of my upgrades.

Severity should probably be grave.

Ben

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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:34:43 +0100
From: Daniel van Eeden <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: sed: workaround

Package: sed
Version: 4.1.2-2
Followup-For: Bug #281740

The file /usr/share/info/sed.info.gz is an gzipped empty file.
Workaround: cp /usr/share/info/sed.info-1.gz /usr/share/info/sed.info.gz

Daniel van Eeden <email address hidden>

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-9-amd64-k8
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages sed depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- no debconf information

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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 12:05:06 -0800 (PST)
From: Phillip Pi <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: sed: Upgrade fails (mine too)

Package: sed
Version: 4.1.2-2

It seems like I am also affected by this serious bug as noted in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=281740 as well! Is there
a fix/workaround? Can I downgrade it? I hope I am following-up correctly
since this is my first time I ever used Debian's bug Web site and I am
still a Debian newbie.

Fetched 246kB in 5s (48.1kB/s)
Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description
for `dir' entry - giving up
dpkg: error processing sed (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description
for `dir' entry - giving up
dpkg: error processing sed (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sed

# apt-get -t stable --reinstall install sed
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 10 not
upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description
for `dir' entry - giving up
dpkg: error processing sed (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

# ls -all /bin/sed
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 41048 2004-11-16 08:29 /bin/sed

uname: 2.6.8-1-k7 #1 Thu Nov 11 12:47:56 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

Thank you in advance. :)
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 13:56:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Phillip Pi <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: sed: Upgrade fails (mine too) [fixed with Daniel's workaround]

The file /usr/share/info/sed.info.gz is an gzipped empty file.
Workaround: cp /usr/share/info/sed.info-1.gz /usr/share/info/sed.info.gz

This worked for me. Thanks Daniel van Eeeden! :)
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:32:15 -0500
From: Clint Adams <email address hidden>
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Subject: once again

These are still duplicates of #281601.

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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 19:10:07 +0200 (EET)
From: era eriksson <email address hidden>
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Subject: Re: Processed: Merging 4.1.2-2 install-info bugs

Owner: Is there a reason you're keeping this open still? Shouldn't
this one too be marked closed, duplicate of #281601?

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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:57:08 -0500
From: Clint Adams <email address hidden>
To: era eriksson <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#281740: Processed: Merging 4.1.2-2 install-info bugs

> Owner: Is there a reason you're keeping this open still? Shouldn't
> this one too be marked closed, duplicate of #281601?

Typo.