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Kubuntu 7.04 chash at update

Bug #87814 reported by ALNBOB on 2007-02-25

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #68267: x11-common loop asking 'Please enter an integer between -20 and 19.' at debconf medium or higher. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	debconf (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

While trying to update the software after the initial install of Kubuntu 7.04 herd 4 i get an error in Debconf "Incorrect nice value , please enter an interger between -20 and 19."

other info from console:

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
  Major opcode: 144
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
  Major opcode: 144
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
  Major opcode: 144
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
  Major opcode: 144
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
DESTROY created new reference to dead object ' Qt::VBoxLayout', <> line 194 during global destruction.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN9> line 4.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN9> line 9.

ProblemType: Bug
Date: Sun Feb 25 10:12:19 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux KU-RX671 2.6.20-8-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 13 05:18:42 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2007-02-26:

I have noticed the same issue when using Adept as the frontend.

Changed in debconf:
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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avint (creek) wrote on 2007-02-28:

I have the same issue whether with Adept or apt-get. Same whether upgrade all or one package.

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eveane (eveane) wrote on 2007-03-08:

having the same issue with clean default install of kubuntu herd 5.
just after install, ran adept and update all.
just after download, got the nice error message and been kicked out of the application.
aptget fail as well
i have tried to skip x11-common but does not do the trick.

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eveane (eveane) wrote on 2007-03-08:

managed to progress by using :
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo aptitude upgrade

i am left with the following package that fail to upgrade :

The following packages will be upgraded:
info klogd libslang2 libsqlite0 libstartup-notification0 libsysfs2
libwrap0 sysklogd
8 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

but for them i get strangely :

Err http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main libsqlite0 2.8.17-1build2
404 Not Found [IP: 193.1.193.69 80]

this while i could access the other upgrade on the same source.
well this was because the ie mirror seemed not be up to date.

changed for uk work fine...

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wpshooter (joverstreet1) wrote on 2007-03-09: Re: [Bug 87814] Re: Kubuntu 7.04 chash at update

I unchecked the 3 updates that would not install because of this problem
and then I rebooted and after about an hour I checked for updates again
and there was again a large batch available and when I attempted to
install them this time they all installed including the 3 that would not
install before that related to xorg. I would assume this means that
this problem was caught and the bogus download was recalled and replaced
with a BETTER one.

Thanks.

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 21:12 +0000, eveane wrote:
> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 68267 ***
>
> having the same issue with clean default install of kubuntu herd 5.
> just after install, ran adept and update all.
> just after download, got the nice error message and been kicked out of the application.
> aptget fail as well
> i have tried to skip x11-common but does not do the trick.
>

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Richard Green (rtg-aapsc) wrote on 2007-03-09:

Which tool did you use?
I had this experience with adept, and I was successful in completing the
update with 'apt-get upgrade' on the command line.

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Davor Cubranic (cubranic) wrote on 2007-03-09:

> Err http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main libsqlite0 > 2.8.17-1build2
> 404 Not Found [IP: 193.1.193.69 80]

This problem is different from this bug, and I've had it happen to me too once or twice: I'm guessing the list of packages is downloaded from a central source, but the packages themselves come from mirrors, which might not have downloaded the packages themselves yet. Trying again a couple of hours later always fixes this problem.

> I had this experience with adept, and I was
> successful in completing the
> update with 'apt-get upgrade' on the command line.

If you meant 'apt-get upgrade' fixed the 'nice' error with debconf, that was not my experience. The workaround described in bug 68267 was the only thing that helped.