[Bug 1015567] Re: upgrade failed: mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present

Fri Sep 28 23:52:03 UTC 2012

Dmitrijs,

The problem is that people who tripped over this bug cannot use the
normal methods to upgrade to get the fix. We greatly appriciate that the
bug is now fixed so this won't trash everyone else's systems, but the
question is how to fix the systems that this bug already trashed.

I got out of it by editing /var/lib/dpkg/status to add an arch entry
when one wasn't present.

However, most people are not going to be comfortable doing that, so what
can they do?

I suspect that this is going to require downloading a fixed dpkg binary
from somewhere, and then running something with that to get the fix
properly.

I could find the package, download it, extract it, and replace the
binary, but there is probably a much cleaner way to do this, but it will
take someone who knows the debian packaging internals better than I do
to identify what is the minimum safe thing to do.

David Lang

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Title:
  upgrade failed: mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package
  instances present

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “dpkg” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  This is the bug which was warned about in [0]
  The easy analysis that you can run, with solutions proposed to recover is in [1]

  The minimal test case goes like this:
  1) install non-multiarch package for native architecture with some config files
  2) remove non-multiarch package (not purge)
  3) rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/lp1015567.list
  4) install multiarch package for foreign architecture, optionally with the same config file
  5) upgrading dpkg will result in:
   mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present

  To easily reproduce the problem, I created a test case packages, see
  lp:~dmitrij.ledkov/+junk/lp1015567-test

  bzr branch lp:~dmitrij.ledkov/+junk/lp1015567-test
  cd lp1015567-test
  debuild
  pbuilder-dist precise create
  echo "HOOKDIR=~/pbuilder/hookdir" >> ~/.pbuilderrc
  cp ../lp1015567-test*_all.deb ~/pbuilder/hookdir
  pbuilder-dist precise execute F10lp1015567

  [0] http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20120310083539.GA15353@gaara.hadrons.org
  [1] http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20120315080224.GA18049@rivendell.home.ouaza.com/firsthit

  --
  TODO
  natty, oneiric, precise are suspected they may corrupt dpkg database as stated in [0]
  it is possible to use script from [1] to fix up the dpkg database
  Should this be done in dpkg or in update-manager?
  One solution is to mark the: rc non-ma package as ma:same
  Should this be backported to natty, oneiric, precise?

  --
  ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION

  This morning I decided to upgrade precise -> quantal.
  I replaced 'precise' -> 'quantal' in /etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade.

  the upgrade failed.  Attempts to 'apt-get -f install' look like:

  $  sudo apt-get -f install --assume-yes
  Reading package lists...
  Building dependency tree...
  Reading state information...
  Correcting dependencies... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    erlang-crypto python-avahi erlang-xmerl erlang-syntax-tools libsctp1
    lksctp-tools libmozjs185-1.0 libopenal-data erlang-runtime-tools
    erlang-mnesia erlang-public-key python-desktopcouch-records erlang-inets
    erlang-ssl python-desktopcouch-application erlang-base
  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    empathy empathy-common eog evolution-data-server-common
    gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 gir1.2-rb-3.0 gnome-desktop-data
    gnome-desktop3-data gnome-screensaver libcamel-1.2-33 libebook-1.2-13
    libecal-1.2-11 libedataserver-1.2-16 libedataserverui-3.0-1
    libgnome-bluetooth10 libgnome-desktop-3-4 libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd8
    libmusicbrainz5-0 librhythmbox-core6 libsane-common libunity-core-5.0-5
    nautilus-data unity unity-common unity-services
  Suggested packages:
    empathy-call
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    libgnome-desktop-3-2
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    libcamel-1.2-33 libebook-1.2-13 libecal-1.2-11 libedataserver-1.2-16
    libgnome-bluetooth10 libgnome-desktop-3-4 libgnomekbd8 libmusicbrainz5-0
    librhythmbox-core6 libsane-common
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    empathy empathy-common eog evolution-data-server-common
    gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 gir1.2-rb-3.0 gnome-desktop-data
    gnome-desktop3-data gnome-screensaver libedataserverui-3.0-1
    libgnomekbd-common libunity-core-5.0-5 nautilus-data unity unity-common
    unity-services
  16 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1058 not upgraded.
  81 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0 B/7,509 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 12.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
  dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 10165 package 'libcanberra-gtk-module:i386':
   mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable package instances present
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

  Potentially useful information, I do have /etc/apt/sources.list.d entries for 'google-musicmanager.list' and 'google-talkplugin.list', which contain, repspectively:
   deb http://dl.google.com/linux/musicmanager/deb/ stable main
  and
   deb http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/ stable main

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: dpkg 1.16.3ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic 3.2.18
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Jun 20 09:30:38 2012
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=screen-bce
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: dpkg
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-07 (226 days ago)

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