[Bug 671214] Re: dpkg fails to install acpi-support 0.137

[Bryan Quigley]

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** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

** Changed in: acpid (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  dpkg fails to install acpi-support 0.137

Status in “acpid” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: acpi-support

  Ubuntu Maverick version of acpi-support was replaced with Debian sid
  by accident on my machine. Successfully manually removed apci-support
  acpi-support-base and acpi-fakekey using dpkg -P --force-all <name> .
  Now, trying to revert to Maverick version in apt cache or manually
  downloaded from us.archive.ubuntu.com pool results in dpkg hanging:

  $sudo dpkg -i --force-all acpi-support_0.137_amd64.deb 
  (Reading database ... 192568 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace acpi-support 0.137 (using acpi-support_0.137_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement acpi-support ...
  Setting up acpi-support (0.137) ...

  It will stay hanging on that line all night, dpkg process shows no cpu
  / cputime activity in top > 1GB free ram and <.5 loadavg:

  9303 root      20   0 77516  57m 1120 S    0  1.6   0:00.48 dpkg

  
  Until I ctrl-c out of it. 

  Setting dpkg --debug=72700 it appears to hang on one of two lines with
  equal probability:

  D000200: conffderef in='/etc/acpi/events/sony-eject' current
  working='/etc/acpi/events/sony-eject'

  or

  D000200: conffderef in='/etc/acpi/sonybright.sh' current
  working='/etc/acpi/sonybright.sh'

  so I tried to remove acpi-support again:

  ---------------------------
   $ sudo dpkg -P --force-all acpi-support
  (Reading database ... 192556 files and directories currently installed.)
  Removing acpi-support ...
  Purging configuration files for acpi-support ...
  Processing triggers for man-db ...
  Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
  ---------------------------------

  Which changes the failure step lines to 100% of the time:

  ---------------------------------------
  Configuration file `/etc/init.d/acpi-support', does not exist on system.
  Installing new config file as you requested.

  ------------------------------
  /etc/init.d/acpi-support is correctly removed / deleted by dpkg each time -P is used...


  $ aptitude show dpkg
  Package: dpkg                            
  Essential: yes
  State: installed
  Automatically installed: no
  Version: 1.15.8.4ubuntu3
  Priority: required
  Section: admin
  Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
  Uncompressed Size: 6,263k
  PreDepends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.11), libselinux1 (>= 1.32), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), coreutils (>= 5.93-1), xz-utils
  Suggests: apt
  Breaks: apt (< 0.7.7), aptitude (< 0.4.7-1), dpkg-dev (< 1.14.16), emacs21 (< 21.4a+1-5.7), emacs21-nox (< 21.4a+1-5.7), emacs22 (<= 22.2-0ubuntu2),
          emacs22-gtk (<= 22.2-0ubuntu2), emacs22-nox (<= 22.2-0ubuntu2), jed (< 1:0.99.18+dfsg.1-13), jed-extra (<= 2.5.3-2), konqueror (<=
          4:4.2.96-1), libdpkg-perl (< 1.15.8), pinfo (< 0.6.9-3.1), tkinfo (< 2.8-3.1), xemacs21-support (< 21.4.22-2), xjed (< 1:0.99.18+dfsg.1-13)
  Description: Debian package management system
   This package provides the low-level infrastructure for handling the installation and removal of Debian software packages. 
   
   For Debian package development tools, install dpkg-dev.
  Homepage: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg


  I've googled like crazy on this, found other anecdotal reports of this
  package failing on upgrade, but no real answers . I have no idea what
  else to try / test / debug... any ideas why this .deb is failing.

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