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openoffice.org package

Upgrading from karmic2lucid is giving error of open office dependency issue

Bug #532068 reported by Laura Czajkowski
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Ubuntu ubuntu-10.04-beta-1

Bug Description

Tried to upgrade my machine from karmic2lucid

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Exception during pm.DoInstall(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend openoffice.org-core for openoffice.org-filter-binfilter, probably a dependency cycle.

Could not install the upgrades

The upgrade is now aborted. Your system could be in an unusable
state. A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).

Upgrade complete

The upgrade is completed but there were errors during the upgrade
process.

ran upgrades

1445 upgraded, 190 newly installed, 29 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1,223MB of archives.
After this operation, 866MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
E: Couldn't configure pre-depend openoffice.org-core for openoffice.org-filter-binfilter, probably a dependency cycle.

no way around this to upgrade. This machine was originally a Jaunty Machine before I upgraded it to Karmic.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 4 18:04:51 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.1 [modified: var/lib/openoffice/basis3.1/program/services.rdb]
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686

See original description
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Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski) wrote :
description: updated
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Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski) wrote :
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

I can reproduce the failure in a karmic chroot with the attached status file (by moving it to /var/lib/dpkg/status).

Same error:
Exception during pm.DoInstall(): E:Couldn't configure pre-depend openoffice.org-core for openoffice.org-filter-binfilter, probably a dependency cycle.

Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.04-beta-1
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Draycen DeCator (ddecator) wrote :

Same problem (as I have marked). Uninstalling openoffice worked as a temporary workaround, I just had to reinstall it after the upgrade.

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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote :

Now, the update tool blacklists the package:

ran update-manager -d from otherwise up-to-date karmic
click: Upgrade (password prompt)
info: Third party sources disabled
info: support for some applications ended (lots, including policykit, oo.o hyphenation)
wait: Calculating the changes

dialogue:
Could not determine the upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:
Trying to install blacklisted version 'openoffice.org-filter-binfilter_1:3.2.0~rc4-1ubuntu1'

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Ara Pulido (ara) wrote :

When making a bug report a duplicate of another it is important to communicate to the reporter that any discussion regarding the bug should take place in the master bug. Keep in mind that 516727 is a placeholder and should be the number of the master bug report.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 516727, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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