Many errors installing packages during upgrading to 8.04
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I ran into a bunch of problems upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04. During the "Installing the ugprades" part of the setup procedure, I got a ton of errors.
The very first one was titled "Could not install 'libdb4.6'" and had the detailed message "no package named `libdb4.6' is installed, cannot configure".
Then what followed were a number of error dialogs for other packages that popped up afterward, all with the detailed message "dependency problems - leaving unconfigured." I'm guessing they were dependent on libdb4.6's successful installation. These were the packages:
- libpam-modules
- login
- passwd
- libuuid1
- e2fsprogs
- python2.5
- python
Then I saw "Could not install '/var/cache/
Then I saw a stream of other errors:
- package perl-modules is already installed and configured
- package libnewt0.52 is already installed and configured
- package whiptail is already installed and configured
- package defoma is already installed and configured
- package gsfonts is already installed and configured
- package ttf-dejavu-extra is already installed and configured
- package ttf-dejavu is already installed and configured
- package ucf is already installed and configured
- package fontconfig-config is already installed and configured
- package libexpat1 is already installed and configured
- package libfontconfig1 is already installed and configured
Then some more of the "dependency problems - leaving unconfigured":
- libsasl2-2
- libldap-2.4-2
- ssl-cert
- cupsys
- libsasl2-modules
For some time, I haven't seen any errors, so I'm submitting this for now.
Yang (yaaang) wrote : | #1 |
Patrick Kilgore (patrick-kilgore) wrote : | #2 |
Thanks for reporting this bug. Can you please attach the information requested by the update manager? That would be the files in your var/log/
Changed in update-manager: | |
assignee: | nobody → patrick-kilgore |
status: | New → Incomplete |
Yang (yaaang) wrote : | #3 |
Yang (yaaang) wrote : | #4 |
After rebooting, I found that Gnome would not start up. I could log in, but then I'm taken to a tan wallpaper, and nothing more happens. I hit ctrl-alt-f2 and tried the following:
yang@harvard ~
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for yang:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
yang@harvard ~
$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up libgmpxx4ldbl (2:4.2.
Setting up libdjvulibre15 (3.5.20-2) ...
Setting up librpcsecgss3 (0.17-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up upstart-logd (0.3.9-2) ...
Setting up libflac8 (1.2.1-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up man-db (2.5.1-3) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/manpath.config ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.
Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.
scrollkeeper-
Setting up libesd-alsa0 (0.2.38-0ubuntu9) ...
Setting up pulseaudio-utils (0.9.10-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libpisync1 (0.12.3-4ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libsdl1.2debian (1.2.13-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up tk8.4 (8.4.16-2ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libopenssl-ruby1.8 (1.8.6.
Setting up cpp-4.1 (4.1.2-21ubuntu1) ...
Setting up whois (4.7.24) ...
Setting up wamerican (6-2.1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xbase-clients:
xbase-clients depends on x11-session-utils; however:
Package x11-session-utils is not installed.
xbase-clients depends on x11-utils; however:
Package x11-utils is not installed.
xbase-clients depends on x11-xfs-utils; however:
Package x11-xfs-utils is not installed.
dpkg: error processing xbase-clients (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up dvd+rw-tools (7.0-9ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libqt3-mt (3:3.3.
Setting up libuniconf4.4 (4.4.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libnm-util0 (0.6.6-0ubuntu5) ...
Setting up libltdl3-dev (1.5.26-1ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xorg:
xorg depends on x11-session-utils; however:
Package x11-session-utils is not installed.
xorg depends on x11-utils; however:
Package x11-utils is not installed.
xorg depends on x11-xfs-utils; however:
Package x11-xfs-utils is not installed.
dpkg: error processing xorg (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libgda3-3 (3.0.2-2ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libmysqlclient15off (5.0.51a-3ubuntu5) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libcairo2-dev:
libcairo2-dev depends on libfontconfig1-dev (>= 2.5.0-2ubuntu2); however:
Version of libfontconfig1-dev on system is 2.4.2-1.2ubuntu4.
dpkg: error processing libcairo2-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libungif4g (4.1.6-4) ...
Setting up mono-jit (1.2.6+
Setting up libvlc0 (0.8.6.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpango1.0-dev:
libpango1.0-dev depends on libcairo2-dev (>= 1.2.6); however:
Package libcairo2-dev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libpango1.0-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unco...
Patrick Kilgore (patrick-kilgore) wrote : | #5 |
Thanks for posting the additional information, I'm going to confirm this bug and someone from the update-manager team should be able to help you out.
Changed in update-manager: | |
assignee: | patrick-kilgore → nobody |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
Yang (yaaang) wrote : | #6 |
Thank you for confirming this. Do you have a rough estimate of how long it will be before there is a solution? I'm trying to decide between waiting for a solution from you vs. wiping out my system and reinstalling from scratch. While I understand it may be difficult to make these estimates, the latter option is expensive - I had done this some months back and remember spending upwards of a week getting my system back into shape/ready for work.
Yang (yaaang) wrote : | #7 |
I'm just as interested in any hints on how I may begin to debug this situation on my own.
Iwan (iwanferreira) wrote : | #8 |
I get exactly the same error(s). I tried removing the packages that are not yet configured from DPKG (dpkg -r -a) and restarting the apt-get dist-upgrade, but it gives the exact same error every time. Any help would be much appreciated.
Yang (yaaang) wrote : | #9 |
At last!
apt-get install -f got me out of the dependency failure tarpit that was killing my attempts to apt-get install packages and to dpkg --configure -a. Another thing to try would've been apt-get clean -f. A subsequent apt-get dist-upgrade worked (took under 3 minutes).
Thanks to JoshuaRL on #ubuntu.
Iwan (iwanferreira) wrote : | #10 |
Hi Yang!
Can you please be more specific on what you did to get it to work. What packages did you have to install with apt-get install -f? Did you have to download the packages or was it already downloaded?
When I tried to apt-get install -f the packages that it says it is dependant on, it says package not found. I also tried apt-get install -f without any package name and then it says run dpkg --configure -a.
Any suggestions?
Yang (yaaang) wrote : | #11 |
I actually ran it without package arguments.
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : | #12 |
@Iwan: please attach your /var/log/
@Yang: Unfortuantely the error you see is pretty hard to diagnose. It looks like apt is running dpkg with incorrect ordering arguments. I haven't seen a problem like this yet and I'm a bit in the dark about what causes it :-(
Iwan (iwanferreira) wrote : | #13 |
Michael, unfortunately this was taking to long to solve so I reinstalled 7.10 from CD. I am waiting to receive the 8.04 CD and will do a clean install from that once received.
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote : | #14 |
I'm closing this report due to your last comment regarding you've fixed it with a dist-upgrade and we don't have enough information to know what happened.
Don't hesitate to submit any new bug.
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Invalid |
Crap.
I just got another one: "package libice6 is already installed and configured."
And finally I see:
[code]Could not install the upgrades
The upgrade aborts now. 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 bugreport.
installArchives() failed[/code]
AAAaarggh!