[Bug 927993] Re: ordering code may mark a package for configure before its unpacked

[Michael Vogt]

The upgrade is still running but it got past the previosu failure point and dpkg is now both installed and configured.
So fingers crossed. This is probably the source of all these old bugs about dpkg not being able to configure the package.

The code in there appears to be unchanged since:
8          arch at canonical.com      20040920 |       Bad = !SmartConfigure(Pkg);

Feedback from someone else like Donkult would be much appreciated as
this is a delicate bit of the code.

** Attachment added: "It appears that the following patch fixes the problem"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/927993/+attachment/2802083/+files/lala

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Title:
  ordering code may mark a package for configure before its unpacked

Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “apt” source package in Precise:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  At the same time I happened to receive a cron crash which I reported
  as bug 927923.

  -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 493K 2012-02-06 13:34 dpkg.0.crash
  -rw------- 1 root   root   150K 2012-02-06 13:34 _usr_sbin_cron.0.crash

  The error message I received from dpkg looks similar to bug 541595.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: update-manager (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-38.83-server 2.6.32.52+drm33.21
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-38-server x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Feb  6 17:33:25 2012
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.3 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110719.2)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager

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