[Bug 1969861] Re: usrmerge breaks update from 20.04 to 22.04 - FATAL ERROR: Both /bin/egrep and /usr/bin/egrep exist.

Tue Nov 1 16:15:27 UTC 2022

Hello,

I also run into it after a broken release upgrade from 20.04 to 22.04 in
a Rock Pi 4. The release upgrade first was broken, because my monitor
screen was suddenly black/switched off/suspended and there was no way to
get into the screen. With screendump I could see, that one has to push
the ok button in the info box about firefox snap install, but there was
no way to do this. I had not screen installed and so logged in via ssh I
could not change to the screen.

So I killed the upgrade processes and run apt install --fix-broken and... lucky me, get back to 20.04.
So I tried do-release-upgrade via ssh (You normally should not do this because ob possible network error) and get the message to do a full upgrade first before running do-release-upgrade. 
So I did apt update and apt upgrade using sudo and could see, that all the 22.04 packages are beeing installed.

But: The process ended with usrmerge error (german). Here is the last output
----------------------
gkbd-capplet (3.26.1-2) wird eingerichtet ...
nautilus-share (0.7.3-2ubuntu6) wird eingerichtet ...
Trigger für sgml-base (1.30) werden verarbeitet ...
docbook-xml (4.5-11) wird eingerichtet ...
Trigger für dictionaries-common (1.28.14) werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für ufw (0.36.1-4build1) werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für libc-bin (2.35-0ubuntu3.1) werden verarbeitet ...
Trigger für sgml-base (1.30) werden verarbeitet ...
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 usrmerge
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-------------------------------------
I tried sudo dpkg --configure -a and the output was

usrmerge (25ubuntu2) wird eingerichtet ...
Smartmatch is experimental at /usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-usrmerge line 172.

FATAL ERROR:
Both /lib/systemd/system/serial-getty at .service and /usr/lib/systemd/system/serial-getty at .service exist.

You can try correcting the errors reported and running again
/usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-usrmerge until it will complete without errors.
Do not install or update other Debian packages until the program
has been run successfully.

dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Paketes usrmerge (--configure):
 »installiertes usrmerge-Skript des Paketes post-installation«-Unterprozess gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 usrmerge
-------------------------------------

Do not know how to fix. Any idea how to fix?

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Title:
  usrmerge breaks update from 20.04 to 22.04 - FATAL ERROR: Both
  /bin/egrep and /usr/bin/egrep exist.

Status in usrmerge package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  A system update from 20.04 to 22.04 stopped in the middle with the
  following error:

  $ sudo apt -f install
  Paketlisten werden gelesen… Fertig
  Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut… Fertig
  Statusinformationen werden eingelesen… Fertig
  Die folgenden Pakete wurden automatisch installiert und werden nicht mehr benötigt:
    cryptsetup-run dh-elpa-helper elpa-dash elpa-ghub elpa-git-commit elpa-let-alist elpa-magit elpa-magit-popup elpa-magit-section elpa-transient elpa-treepy elpa-with-editor emacs fonts-mathjax gcc-10-base
    gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-gst-3.0 gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0 ippusbxd libamtk-5-0 libamtk-5-common libaom0 libappstream-glib8
    libart-2.0-2 libbasicusageenvironment1 libboost-date-time1.71.0 libboost-filesystem1.71.0 libboost-iostreams1.71.0 libboost-locale1.71.0 libboost-log1.71.0 libboost-program-options1.71.0
    libboost-regex1.71.0 libboost-thread1.71.0 libbrlapi0.7 libcamel-1.2-62 libcbor0.6 libcdio18 libclass-accessor-perl libcmis-0.5-5v5 libcodec2-0.9 libcpp-hocon0.1.7 libcroco3 libdc1394-22 libdcmtk14
    libdirectfb-1.7-7 libdns-export1109 libdvdread7 libebml4v5 libedataserver-1.2-24 libedataserverui-1.2-2 libextutils-pkgconfig-perl libfacter3.11.0 libfl2 libfluidsynth2 libfreehep-export-java
    libfreehep-graphicsio-tests-java libfreehep-swing-java libfreehep-util-java libfreehep-xml-java libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgl1-mesa-glx libglew2.1 libgloox17 libgroupsock8
    libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 libgtkspell0 libgupnp-1.2-0 libhandy-0.0-0 libhogweed5 libidn11 libigdgmm11 libilmbase24 libio-string-perl libjas-plotter-java libjaxen-java libjdom1-java libjs-mathjax libjson-c4
    libjuh-java libjurt-java libkf5crash5 libleatherman1.4.2 liblibreoffice-java liblivemedia77 libllvm12 libmatroska6v5 libmms0 libmozjs-68-0 libnb-org-openide-util-java libnb-org-openide-util-lookup-java
    libneon27-gnutls libnettle7 libntfs-3g883 libofa0 libopenexr24 liborcus-0.15-0 libotf0 libparse-debianchangelog-perl libperl5.30 libpgm-5.2-0 libphonenumber7 libplacebo7 libpodofo0.9.6 libpoppler73
    libpoppler97 libprotobuf-lite17 libprotobuf17 libpython3.8 libpython3.8-minimal libpython3.8-stdlib libqpdf26 libraw19 libre2-5 libreoffice-style-tango libridl-java libsane libsensors4-dev libsnmp35
    libsrt1 libtablelayout-java libtepl-4-0 libtracker-control-2.0-0 libtracker-miner-2.0-0 libtracker-sparql-2.0-0 libunoloader-java liburcu6 libusageenvironment3 libusrsctp1 libvpx6 libx264-155 libx265-179
    libxml-simple-perl libxmlb1 libyaml-cpp0.6 linux-image-5.4.0-105-generic linux-image-5.4.0-107-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-105-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-107-generic
    linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-107-generic lz4 perl-modules-5.30 postgresql-client-12 postgresql-doc-12 python-backports.functools-lru-cache python-bs4 python-cairo python-gobject-2 python-html5lib
    python-lxml python-numpy python-olefile python-pil python-pkg-resources python-six python-soupsieve python-webencodings python3-entrypoints python3-nose python3.8 python3.8-minimal ruby-connection-pool
    ruby-molinillo ruby-net-http-persistent ruby-sync ruby-thor ruby2.7 ruby2.7-dev ruby2.7-doc scour syslinux syslinux-common syslinux-legacy transfig ure-java
  Verwenden Sie »sudo apt autoremove«, um sie zu entfernen.
  0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.
  1 nicht vollständig installiert oder entfernt.
  Nach dieser Operation werden 0 B Plattenplatz zusätzlich benutzt.
  usrmerge (25ubuntu2) wird eingerichtet ...
  Smartmatch is experimental at /usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-usrmerge line 172.

  FATAL ERROR:
  Both /bin/egrep and /usr/bin/egrep exist.

  You can try correcting the errors reported and running again
  /usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-usrmerge until it will complete without errors.
  Do not install or update other Debian packages until the program
  has been run successfully.

  dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Paketes usrmerge (--configure):
   »installiertes usrmerge-Skript des Paketes post-installation«-Unterprozess gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
  Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
   usrmerge
  libdvd-pkg: Checking orig.tar integrity...
  /usr/src/libdvd-pkg/libdvdcss_1.4.3.orig.tar.bz2: OK
  libdvd-pkg: `apt-get check` failed, you may have broken packages. Aborting...
  [ Rootkit Hunter version 1.4.6 ]
  File updated: searched for 182 files, found 164
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
  Package: usrmerge 25ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-109.123-generic 5.4.178
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-109-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri Apr 22 01:30:21 2022
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-18 (946 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190805)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
  SourcePackage: usrmerge
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-04-21 (0 days ago)

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