Dapper upgrade to Edgy: Frozen dist-upgrade and failed second run (in Finnish locales
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
python-apt (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Michael Vogt | ||
Dapper |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Brian Murray | ||
Edgy |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Michael Vogt | ||
update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Michael Vogt | ||
Dapper |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Edgy |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
I'm not sure if this is a bug, but as the update-manager told me to report this as a bug, I'll post this here, sorry if I'm in a wrong place.
So here we go:
First I ran update-manager -c, it worked fine, until eventually it froze.
Then I restarted the x-server by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace. I wasn't able to log in, so I pressed ctrl+alt+f1 and loged in from there.
I dried to fix the situation according to
http://
I drove in
sudo dpkg --configure -a
it gave some errors.
I removed the broken packages via
sudo aptitude -f remove
And then I did
sudo dpkg --configure -a
with no errors.
After that I rebooted the x-server and was able to log in. Then I run
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude upgrade
sudo aptitude dist-upgrade
and rebooted,
then I noticed that update-manager was missing from my installation, I installed it and started it.
It said that I need to do a dist-upgrade, which I did.
There where ~50 packages yet to install.
Package-manager gave an error message like this (translated from finnish and in a shortened form):
Acute error happened!
Make a bug report including files /var/log/
The update will be terminated.
And then a punch of some logs on the error message:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/
if not controler.
File "/usr/lib/
res = self.cache.
File "/usr/lib/
res = self.installArc
File "/usr/lib/
res = installProgress
File "/usr/lib/
res = self.waitChild()
File "/usr/lib/
self.
File "/usr/lib/
InstallProg
File "/usr/lib/
(status, pkg, percent, status_str) = string.split(s, ":")
ValueError: too many values to unpack
Here is my /var/log/
[...]
2006-10-26 21:43:28,035 ERROR got ValueError from InstallPrgoress
' (too many values to unpack)
2006-10-26 21:43:28,060 ERROR got ValueError from InstallPrgoress
' (too many values to unpack)
My system is still able to reboot and everything seems to be working fine, except the performance may be a little lover as before.
I really would appreciate some help.
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in python-apt: | |
status: | Needs Info → Confirmed |
Changed in update-manager: | |
importance: | Medium → High |
Changed in python-apt: | |
assignee: | nobody → mvo |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | Unconfirmed → In Progress |
Changed in python-apt: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in python-apt: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
assignee: | nobody → mvo |
Thanks for your bugreport.
This bug shows under rare circumstances when dpkg sends unexpected error lines. I will attach a debdiff with a fix and the fix will be uploaded to the archive soon.