[Bug 1173043] Re: package libncurses5 5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: pre-dependency problem - not installing libncurses5:i386

[Margarita Manterola]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1042339 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1042339

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1042339
   package libncurses5 5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: pre-dependency problem - not installing libncurses5:i386

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Title:
  package libncurses5 5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage:
  pre-dependency problem - not installing libncurses5:i386

Status in “ncurses” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Used the Update Manager to Upgrade from 10.4 LTS to 12.4 LTS
  3 warnings were issued during upgrade, but upgrade continued
  After upgrade I re-booted.
  Multiple errors occured.
  1) multiple udevd errors for "Invalid rule" and "unknown key".
  I download and burn a 12.4.2 cd image and reboot with the Live CD.
  12.4.2 works ok from the Live CD(no issues/warnings/errors), so I know 12.4 will work on my hardware.
  After many hours of Google found that the "syntax for udev rules had changed ..."
  Fixed with sed -i -e //SYSFS/ATTR/g *.rules
  Re-boot
  2) X11 initialization failed. udev[373] specified group 'colord' unknown.
  3) loadndisdriver: load_driver(364) couldn't load driver netrtuw.
  4) The disk drive for / is not ready or present. Press S to Skip or M for manual recovery.
  After more hours of searching Google decided to follow  a suggested fix and go for an install again.
  mount -o remount,rw /
  ifconfig eth0 up
  dhclient eth0
  sudo apt-get install -f
  After an hour of install/upgrade scripts I get a window about postgresql-8.4 obsolete!
  I press OK and the install stops with a postgresql error.
  I install postgres 9.1 and 9.1 client and upgrade 8.4 clusters to 9.1(pg_upgradecluser, pg_dropcluster --stop 9.1 main, etc, etc
  I get more errors, so I try to stop/start postgres, which fails
  I reboot again just for the hell of it.
  Now I'm back at step 4) above.
  This time I try a different sequence to try to upgrade again.
  sudo apt-get update&&sudo apt-get upgrade
  After this completes(no warnings or errors) I sudo shutdown -r now
  This time the boot stops with an error "Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered.
  More Google seaching and I find a fix: sudo echo 'blacklist snd-pcsp' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
  Re-boot again
  PC reboot ok, Ubuntu 12.4 boots and I leave it to check all the drives. It returns no errors.
  I then get a clean start of Ubuntu 12.4.
  I now think I should check a few things, so I open a PDF document to browse and maybe print.
  But as I am browsing the PDF I start getting error windows popping up with "System Error,... do you want to send an error report." So I say hell yes to the next 4 or five errors, which leads me to creating a "Launchpad" account and this bug report.

  I don't know what I should do now.
  Update to 12.11 as some have said or try to go to a different earlier version of Ubuntu.

  Any advice would be appreciated.

  Thank you,

  Nigel Weedon.

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: libncurses5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-40.64-generic 3.2.40
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-40-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Apr 20 23:44:49 2013
  ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: pre-dependency problem - not installing libncurses5:i386
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: ncurses
  Title: package libncurses5 5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: pre-dependency problem - not installing libncurses5:i386
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2013-04-20 (5 days ago)

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