[Bug 1742147] Re: upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 fails with triggers looping

[Bruce Pieterse]

I hit this bug a few minutes ago, but upgrading from the ubuntu-gnome-
vanilla-desktop package in 17.10. bamfdaemon is not installed but gnome-
icon-theme is.

$ apt-cache policy bamfdaemon 
bamfdaemon:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.5.3+17.10.20170810-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
     0.5.3+17.10.20170810-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
$ apt-cache policy gnome-icon-theme
gnome-icon-theme:
  Installed: 3.12.0-2
  Candidate: 3.12.0-2
  Version table:
 *** 3.12.0-2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Title:
  upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 fails with triggers looping

Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Bionic:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 fails with triggers looping.

  Related packages crashes:
  dpkg: bug 1512322
  systemd: bug 1742143
  libvlc-bin: bug 1742146

  Test Case:
  1. Install 17.10.1 + all the updates
  2. Install bamfdaemon, gnome-icon-theme
  3. Upgrade to Bionic

  Actual Result
  This crash and bug 1512322

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-21.24-generic 4.13.13
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-21-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu6
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Tue Jan  9 14:24:47 2018
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-23 (1265 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-01-09 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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