[Bug 937196] Re: 10.04 LTS -> 12.04 upgrade failed: ifupdown depends on upstart and initscripts but they are not configured

[Steve Langasek]

I don't know why this is not reproducible, but I certainly see a
circular relationship that can be contributing to it

  Package: upstart
  Depends: ifupdown (>= 0.6.10ubuntu5) # newer than lucid

  Package: ifupdown
  Depends: upstart-job

  Package: friendly-recovery
  Breaks: upstart (<< 1.3-0ubuntu9)
  Depends: upstart-job, upstart, whiptail

Not sure we can remove the circular dep though, so maybe this just needs
to be addressed as an apt ordering bug.  The log shows the upgrade being
done with update-manager; does that already have the backport of the
GSoC ordering fixes?

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Title:
  10.04 LTS -> 12.04 upgrade failed: ifupdown depends on upstart and
  initscripts but they are not configured

Status in “ifupdown” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Attempting to upgrade from Mythbuntu 10.04 to 12.04.  Here is the
  important part of the upgrade log output.  Complete logs will be
  attached, and if more info is needed, please just ask!

  
  dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ifupdown:
   ifupdown depends on upstart-job; however:
    Package upstart-job is not installed.
    Package upstart which provides upstart-job is not configured yet.
   ifupdown depends on initscripts (>= 2.88dsf-13.3); however:
    Package initscripts is not configured yet.
  dpkg: error processing ifupdown (--configure):
   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
  dpkg: error processing dpkg (--configure):
   package dpkg is already installed and configured
  Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
  ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   ifupdown
   dpkg
  Log ended: 2012-02-20  11:43:29

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.134.7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Feb 20 13:43:48 2012
  InstallationMedia: Mythbuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager

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