Installing "usbmgr" made Synaptic destroy my iinstallation

[Bram]

Binary package hint: usbmgr

It might be Synaptic, or the usbmgr module. It looked like Synaptic was uninstalling my kernel (if at all possible) when I tried to install usbmgr. After seeing this, I directly rebooted to see if all was still working. After starting with the deafult boot option (not in repair mode) from grub, I got an error 15, stating: (if I remember correctly;) "File not found".

ProblemType: Bug
Date: Sun Feb 18 23:37:53 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux bram 2.6.20-8-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 13 05:18:42 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Koyocik (koyocik)]

I think it`s something during upgrade from 6.10 to 7.04
I have very similar problem:
<kuba@/~>$ LC_MESSAGES=C sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  usbmgr

When I`m trying to install usbmgr it is trying to remove a lot og packages, including kernel.

Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: 2.6.20-16-386

[Scott Henson (scotth)]

I'm going to guess that it does this wonderful stuff because it conflicts with udev. I would be interested to know why it conflicts with udev.

[Scott Henson (scotth)]

I quote the usbmgr long description;
"""
 This software was made for 2.4 kernels when USB support was inmature,
 for wider and modern support of plugable devices you may want to use
 hotplug by installing the udev package.
"""

I don't think that there is a linux 2.4 based kernel in the archive. More importantly, is running on linux 2.4 a valid configuration for Gutsy? I think that this package probably needs removed. If someone wants to install a 2.4 linux kernel I think that they are going to run into larger problems than usbmgr not being in the archive.

So, the proper solution is probably removal unless someone can come up with a valid reason to have this installed on a udev/linux2.6 system?

[LarryJ (larry-foxgulch)]

In Gutsy 7.10, this also occurs.

To see what happens. start Adept Manager. Find usbmgr and request install. At the top, click Preview Changes. You'll see some 45 packages that will be !!REMOVED!! upon installation of usbmgr package. This includes linux kernel images and Ubuntu supplied Linux modules.

After installing usbmgr, your machine will not boot as the kernel vmz has been removed. Grub reports a filenot found -15 error (my recollection).

At that point, you must reinstall which I just finished doing.