[kubuntu] update-manager crashes during jaunty to karmic beta upgrade

[Thomas Lesinski]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Hi,

When using "update-notifier-kde -d" to upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic beta, the update app pops up an error box after having downloaded all packages, and before (I think) the actual upgrade process -- see update-manager-error.png. Apport doesn't seem to generate a valid bug report, so I used ubuntu-bug...

On the command line:

me@mybox:~$ update-notifier-kde -d
extracting 'karmic.tar.gz'
authenticate 'karmic.tar.gz' against 'karmic.tar.gz.gpg'
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/dbus/connection.py:242: DeprecationWarning: object.__init__() takes no parameters
  super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

adept_manager: no process killed
adept_updater: no process killed
 * Starting automatic crash report generation: apport
   ...done.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: update-manager-kde 1:0.111.9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(cususernamem, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[Thomas Lesinski (lesintho)]

Attaching contents of /var/log/dist-upgrade.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Cold you please run "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y --simulate" and attach the output?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The error message is very non-descriptive, once we figured out what is wrong, we need to improve that as well.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Was there anything displayed in the "show terminal" expander when this happend?

[Pétur Runólfsson (petur-betware)]

I am getting this same error. There is nothing in "show terminal" when it happens. Running sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y --simulate reports an error:

petur@skttrbrain:~/tmp$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y --simulate > dist-upgrade-simulate.log
[sudo] password for petur:
E: Conf Broken libc-bin
E: Couldn't configure pre-depend openoffice.org-core for openoffice.org-filter-binfilter, probably a dependency cycle.

[Thomas Lesinski (lesintho)]

I get the same error on sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y --simulate (attaching full output). "Show terminal" is disabled before the error, and blocked by the dialog afterwards. Clicking close, well, closes the whole application.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Many thanks for the updates.

Could you please attach the file /var/lib/dpkg/status so that I can try to reproduce the issue? This is most likely a dup of #442651 but I was not able to reproduce this one yet.

[Pétur Runólfsson (petur-betware)]

The workaround in #442651 (removing openoffice.org-filter-binfilter) allows the install to continue, so this seems to be related.

[Thomas Lesinski (lesintho)]

The openoffice.org-filter-binfilter workaround also works for me -- I have upgraded to karmic.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is fixed now with the new openoffice.org in the archive. Many thanks for the provided dpkg status files.