[Bug 934112] Re: dpkg aborts

[Raphaël Hertzog]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > You should have made a backup of all the important files in
> > /var/lib/dpkg/ (at least status, possibly the content of the updates
> > directory too, if not empty) when you were encountering the problem.
> 
> Now this is somewhat redudndant chasing a bug fixed in newer dpkg
> already.

Right... why did you decide to report it then? Do you really believe that
it's worth being fixed in oneiric? It's not a widely encountered bug since
you're the firt one to report it. :-)

Please, despite this, can you attach the /var/lib/dpkg/status that
triggers this bug ? I don't have any oneiric chroot to reproduce it
quickly...

Cheers,
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Title:
  dpkg aborts

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Oneiric dpkg aborts.

  Since Precise dpkg does not I guess the simplest fix is to just import
  the new version

  Setting up libx11-doc (2:1.4.99.1-0ubuntu1) ...
  dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:229: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed.
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly
  A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
  Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
  ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
  dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:229: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed.
  Aborted
  Press return to continue.
  ^C
  root at iscsi:~# dpkg --pending --configure
  dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:229: process_queue: Assertion `dependtry <= 4' failed.
  Aborted
  root at iscsi:~# aptitude install -t precise dpkg                                                                                              
  The following packages will be upgraded: 
    dpkg 
  The following partially installed packages will be configured:
    wine1.3 wine1.4 wine1.4-amd64 wine1.4-i386 
  1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1354 not upgraded.
  Need to get 1,829 kB of archives. After unpacking 534 kB will be freed.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] 
  Get: 1 http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main dpkg amd64 1.16.1.2ubuntu5 [1,829 kB]
  Fetched 1,829 kB in 3s (494 kB/s)
  (Reading database ... 248413 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace dpkg 1.16.0.3ubuntu5 (using .../dpkg_1.16.1.2ubuntu5_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement dpkg ...
  Processing triggers for man-db ...
  Setting up dpkg (1.16.1.2ubuntu5) ...
  Setting up wine1.4 (1.4~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...
  procps stop/waiting
  Setting up wine1.4-amd64 (1.4~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...
  Setting up wine1.3 (1.4~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...
  Setting up wine1.4-i386:i386 (1.4~rc2-0ubuntu2) ...
  Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
  ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-server 3.0.13
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-server x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Feb 17 12:07:04 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: dpkg
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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