Distribution upgrade to 10.04 fails due to /etc/environment contents

[Wim Deblauwe]

Binary package hint: texinfo

There was the following line in /etc/environment:

export MAVEN_OPTS=-Xms512m -Xmx512m

Note that no quotes where present, which is incorrect in fact.

The updater crashed on this. Manually putting quotes in place resolve the issue and I could upgrade again.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 30 13:48:03 2010
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
SourcePackage: texinfo
Title: package install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

This isn't a bug in texinfo, who/whatever set that option in /etc/environment is to blame.