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install-package package

python2.6 crashed with SystemError in markInstall()

Bug #341334 reported by Stefan Bader
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install-package (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Michael Vogt
Jaunty
Fix Released
Undecided
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: python2.6

Kubuntu Desktop amd64 20090311.2

After fresh install, clicked on a mp3 file to play with amarok.
Amarok needs to install decoder packages
This installation seems successful (apt-get install -f looks clean) but a python crash is reported at the end.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.3-5ubuntu2
 zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12ubuntu1
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.3-5ubuntu2
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
 libc6 2.9-4ubuntu2
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/python2.6
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: python2.6-minimal 2.6.1-1ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: python /usr/bin/install-package --install libtunepimp5-mp3 flashplugin-nonfree libmp3lame0 libavcodec-unstripped-52 libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: []
SourcePackage: python2.6
Title: python2.6 crashed with SystemError in markInstall()
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-9-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

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Stefan Bader (smb) wrote :
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

markInstall is part of the python-apt extension, so I think this is more likely (though I suppose not certain) to belong there.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

The traceback says:

SystemError: E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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Stefan Bader (smb) wrote : Re: [Bug 341334] Re: python2.6 crashed with SystemError in markInstall()

Colin Watson wrote:
> SystemError: E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken
> packages.
>
 Right, the strange thing is, I ran "apt-get update -f" afterwards and it
returned immediately without any apparent action. It turned out, the packages
were not installed in that previous step as I initially had thought. A little
later I tried amarok again and it suggested the install again. That time
everything worked (as it had on a previous run from the live CD).

I do some more test to see whether this is reproducible at all. Actually it
occured immediately followed by the knepomukservicestub crash from bug #341261.

Colin Watson (cjwatson)
Changed in python-apt (Ubuntu Jaunty):
assignee: nobody → mvo
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in python-apt (Ubuntu Jaunty):
status: New → In Progress
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package install-package - 0.3.1

---------------
install-package (0.3.1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * install-package.py:
    - more robust against broken dependencies (LP: #341334)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:20:44 +0100

Changed in install-package:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)
tags: added: iso-testing
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