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xkeyboard-config package

dapper->hardy missing files on upgrade

Bug #213566 reported by Michael Vogt
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Michael Vogt
Ubuntu ubuntu-8.04

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xkeyboard-config

On a dapper->hardy upgrade there are files missing that lead to gnome-keyboard-preferences being unsuable:

$ ls -l /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules
total 108
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91 Mar 30 18:36 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31233 Mar 30 18:36 base
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27644 Mar 30 18:36 base.lst
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 28 2006 base.xml -> /etc/X11/xkb/base.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3247 Mar 30 18:36 sgi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2342 Mar 30 18:36 sun
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26386 Mar 30 18:36 sun.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 794 Mar 30 18:36 xfree98
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1184 Mar 30 18:36 xkb.dtd
$ dpkg -l xkb-data
ii xkb-data 1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1ubuntu3 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configuration data

On a fresh system it looks like this:
$ ls -l /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules
total 108
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31233 2008-02-26 16:28 base
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27644 2008-02-26 16:28 base.lst
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 2008-02-29 11:28 base.xml -> /etc/X11/xkb/base.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 91 2008-02-26 16:28 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3247 2008-02-26 16:28 sgi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2342 2008-02-26 16:28 sun
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26386 2008-02-26 16:28 sun.xml
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-02-29 11:28 xfree86 -> base
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2008-02-29 11:28 xfree86.lst -> base.lst
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2008-02-29 11:28 xfree86.xml -> base.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 794 2008-02-26 16:28 xfree98
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1184 2008-02-26 16:28 xkb.dtd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-02-29 11:28 xorg -> base
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2008-02-29 11:28 xorg.lst -> base.lst
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2008-02-29 11:28 xorg.xml -> base.xml

Note the missing symlinks for xorg.xml in particular.

Tags: dapper2hardy
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

The upgrade logs contains the following lines:

Selecting previously deselected package xkb-data.

Unpacking xkb-data (from .../xkb-data_1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1ubuntu3_all.deb) ...

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/compat had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/compat.dpkg-old.

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/compat.dir had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/compat.dir.dpkg-old.

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/geometry had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/geometry.dpkg-old.

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/geometry.dir had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/geometry.dir.dpkg-old.

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes.dpkg-old.

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes.dir had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/keycodes.dir.dpkg-old.

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/keymap had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/keymap.dpkg-old.

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/keymap.dir had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/keymap.dir.dpkg-old.

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/rules had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/rules.dpkg-old.

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/semantics had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/semantics.dpkg-old.

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/semantics.dir had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/semantics.dir.dpkg-old.

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/symbols had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/symbols.dpkg-old.

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/symbols.dir had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/symbols.dir.dpkg-old.

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/types had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/types.dpkg-old.

WARNING: /etc/X11/xkb/types.dir had local changes! XKB configuration has

moved to /usr/share/X11/xkb. Preserving as /etc/X11/xkb/types.dir.dpkg-old.

Replacing files in old package xkeyboard-config ...

Changed in xkeyboard-config:
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → ubuntu-8.04
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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

There is an interesting bit in xkeyboard-config/debian/preinst fiddling with the symlinks:

            for link in xfree86 xfree86.lst xfree86.xml xorg xorg.lst xorg.xml; do
                rm -f "/etc/X11/xkb/rules/$link"
            done

Perhaps the above is getting run on upgrade, but the corresponding code to generate the links is being skipped? There is a comment there "TODO: we should really have rollback code for all of this".

Or... also in debian/rules is this line for the configure step:

        ./configure $(confflags) \
          --prefix=/usr \
          --disable-xkbcomp-symlink --with-xkb-rules-symlink=xfree86,xorg \
          --with-xkb-base=$(xkb_base) \
          XKBCOMP=/no/thanks

Which makes me wonder if that --with-xkb-rules-symlink is not coming into effect during the upgrade.

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Jouni Mettala (jouni-mettala) wrote :

Is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/213973 duplicate of this bug or related?

ls -l /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules gives me same short list.

Changed in xkeyboard-config:
status: New → Confirmed
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

There are a number of bugs in this transition it seems.
1. xkb-data querry for conffiles in xkb-data on dapper upgrades, but back then the package that had the conffile was xkeyboard-config
2. the transitional package xkeyboard-config is in universe, that is not helpful, it needs to be in main

But that is not relevant to this bug (it just makes finding it harder). I think what happens is the following:
1. dapper has xkeyboard-config installed, that has a bunch of conffiles in /etc/X11/xkb/rules:
  /etc/X11/xkb/rules/base 874ae2bf48b3d7e62101940d1e8ba800
  /etc/X11/xkb/rules/sgi 0d2f45bc82748a52d61ac7c34d77ec9c
  /etc/X11/xkb/rules/sun d1b83f824548dc15abc6c0623129516b
  /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree98 75d47545d3e3c7da7f978b915aeb82aa
  /etc/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst 323f897dd09197bd17dae4744d59d954
  /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xkb.dtd 021c8a02eddde3e9662f4bc35deff624
  /etc/X11/xkb/rules/README 1cb4b3e6d56889944af101ba0122f103
  /etc/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml 03d8adbed7713e6dc756929beed3e0fa
 (note that /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.xml is absent amongst other)
2. xkb-data gets installed, that replaces the /etc/X11/xkb/rules directory with a symlink to /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules
3. xkeyboard-config from hardy is installed, it does not have any packages anymore (its just a transitional package), that means
    that will remove the files that belong to this package and that are not conffile, notably /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.xml that now
    points to /usr/share/xkb/rules/xorg.xml
-> desaster

Changed in xkeyboard-config:
assignee: nobody → mvo
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package xkeyboard-config - 1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1ubuntu5

---------------
xkeyboard-config (1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1ubuntu5) hardy; urgency=low

  * preinst:
    - when upgrading from hardy, check the conffiles against
      xkeyboard-config not xkb-data (was not available back then)
  * debian/control:
    - add conflicts against old xkeyboard-config to ensure the
      upgrade happens in the right order (LP: #213566)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:11:52 +0200

Changed in xkeyboard-config:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Salenko (r7salek) wrote :

Hi,

I still get get error code 1 message ....
....
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_GB:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
(Reading database ... 59630 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xkb-data (from .../xkb-data_1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1ubuntu5_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xkb-data_1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1ubuntu5_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/xkb/types.dir', which is also in package xkeyboard-config
Selecting previously deselected package xserver-xorg-video-geode.
Unpacking xserver-xorg-video-geode (from .../xserver-xorg-video-geode_2.8.0-7_i386.deb) ...
Replacing files in old package xserver-xorg-video-amd ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/xkb-data_1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1ubuntu5_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Is there any solution to this?

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Salenko (r7salek) wrote :

 Follow up ----------->sudo aptitude -f reinstall locales
fixed it ;--- to an extent.... followed by usual sudo aptitude updata and upgrade

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Shengyao Wang (shengyaowang) wrote :

Dear Michael Vogt,

I got the same error when upgrading from 6.06 LTS to 8.04 LTS. Can you explain in detail on how to get the upgrade through? I don't understand how to:

  * preinst:
    - when upgrading from hardy, check the conffiles against
      xkeyboard-config not xkb-data (was not available back then)
  * debian/control:
    - add conflicts against old xkeyboard-config to ensure the
      upgrade happens in the right order (LP: #213566)

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Valentin Lab (vaab) wrote :

this is what I did to get through to install xkb-data:

download of the 386 build of xkb-data_1.1 latest version here:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/1.1~cvs.20080104.1-1ubuntu8/+build/746196

Then did a simple "dpkg -i" on it. This did the trick.

Please note that the breaking of xkb-data has broken the full upgrade from dapper->hardy much more severly than that. Several more package are said to be in conflict. And I have to fight as I can to get through the huge dependency mess.

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