[Bug 1192890] Re: update-manager fails to upgrade from quantal to raring No module named '_sysconfigdata_m'

[Matthew Bergkoetter]

** Also affects: python3.4 (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  update-manager fails to upgrade from quantal to raring No module named
  '_sysconfigdata_m'

Status in python3.3 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in python3.4 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I ran update manager and chose to upgrade to raring. The packages all
  downloaded. On installation, I repeatedly saw something like this in
  the console:

    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site.py", line 633, in <module>
      main()
    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site.py", line 618, in main
      known_paths = addusersitepackages(known_paths)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site.py", line 284, in addusersitepackages
      user_site = getusersitepackages()
    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site.py", line 260, in getusersitepackages
      user_base = getuserbase() # this will also set USER_BASE
    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/site.py", line 250, in getuserbase
      USER_BASE = get_config_var('userbase')
    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/sysconfig.py", line 610, in get_config_var
      return get_config_vars().get(name)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/sysconfig.py", line 560, in get_config_vars
      _init_posix(_CONFIG_VARS)
    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/sysconfig.py", line 432, in _init_posix
      from _sysconfigdata import build_time_vars
    File "/usr/lib/python3.3/_sysconfigdata.py", line 6, in <module>
      from _sysconfigdata_m import *
  ImportError: No module named '_sysconfigdata_m'

  Eventually, update-manager silently exited.

  Now when I try to start it again from gnome-terminal, I see the above,
  and update-manager immediately exits.

  In fact, python3.3 doesn't run, with the same error, and

  apt-get install python3.3

  Results in the same error repeatedly

  _sysconfigdata_m.py is in

  http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/amd64/libpython3.3-minimal/filelist

  But it wasn't installed, so I installed it by hand using dpkg.

  python3.3 still doesn't run, but now I

  apt-get install python3.3

  without seeing this error, and all the unconfigured packages from the
  upgrade get configured.

  The reporting guidelines don't seem to apply to upgrade issues, but
  for completeness

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 13.04
  Release:	13.04

  What I expected: I expected update-manager to upgrade my system, or to report that it had failed
  What happened: update-manager exited, without reporting failure, leaving my system in an unusable state

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