Comment 13 for bug 1042511

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Mendels (mendelsflandre) wrote : Re: [Bug 1042511] Update Released

Thanks for your time and efforts.
As I still have to improve my' linux ways of live', I realy appreciate your
help and the help off an invisible (at least for me) community off poeple
who wants to improve the world on the only good way for all off us.

Thousands Thanks a lot.

My best Regards

2015-04-22 18:15 GMT+02:00 Chris J Arges <email address hidden>:

> The verification of the Stable Release Update for syslinux-themes-debian
> has completed successfully and the package has now been released to
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1042511
>
> Title:
> postrm fails when syslinux-themes-debian is removed after extlinux has
> been removed
>
> Status in syslinux-themes-debian package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in syslinux-themes-debian source package in Trusty:
> Fix Released
> Status in syslinux-themes-debian source package in Utopic:
> Fix Released
> Status in syslinux-themes-debian package in Debian:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> [Impact]
>
> Leads to autoremove failing on distribution upgrade. If this happens
> then users get told that "A fatal error occurred" during distribution
> upgrade. Ultimately it's not so bad because it's at the final
> autoremove step and this can just be repeated, but it is still bad
> that this bug causes the distribution upgrade to fail if this package
> is present.
>
> [Development Fix]
>
> Test for extlinux-update explicitly before attempting to run it. No
> update to extlinux is needed if it is no longer installed anyway.
>
> [Stable Fix]
>
> Same as development fix.
>
> [Test Case]
>
> apt-get install extlinux syslinux-themes-debian
> dpkg -r extlinux
> dpkg -r syslinux-themes-debian
>
> Expected result: success
>
> Actual result: failure on the final command:
>
> Removing syslinux-themes-debian (12-3) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/syslinux-themes-debian.postrm: 15:
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/syslinux-themes-debian.postrm: extlinux-update: not found
> dpkg: error processing package syslinux-themes-debian (--remove):
> subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> syslinux-themes-debian
>
> [Regression Potential]
>
> I change the postrm maintainer script in this fix. The bug caused it
> to possibly fail before. The worst that can happen is that the postrm
> will fail in some other way.
>
> [Original Description]
>
> I'dont know. I was trying to create a bootable usb with a Ubuntu 12.04
> 64's iso.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
> Package: syslinux-themes-debian (not installed)
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-10.10-generic 3.5.1
> Uname: Linux 3.5.0-10-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.4-0ubuntu8
> AptOrdering:
> extlinux: Remove
> syslinux-themes-debian: Remove
> syslinux-themes-debian-wheezy: Remove
> unetbootin: Remove
> unetbootin-translations: Remove
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Mon Aug 27 09:34:46 2012
> DpkgTerminalLog:
> Removing extlinux ...
> Removing syslinux-themes-debian ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/syslinux-themes-debian.postrm: 15:
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/syslinux-themes-debian.postrm: extlinux-update: not found
> dpkg: error processing syslinux-themes-debian (--remove):
> subprocess installed post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error
> exit status 127
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64
> (20120814.1)
> SourcePackage: syslinux-themes-debian
> Title: package syslinux-themes-debian (not installed) failed to
> install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-removal script returned error
> exit status 127
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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F. Mendels-Flandre