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package ubiquity 1.13.5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #392424 reported by Javier Cabezas
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This bug affects 11 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Colin Watson
Ubuntu karmic-alpha-3
Karmic
Fix Released
Critical
Colin Watson
Ubuntu karmic-alpha-3

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Last Karmic upgrade (6/26/2009) finished with an error in ubiquity post-installation:

Setting up ubiquity (1.13.5) ...
Compiling /usr/share/ubiquity/install.py ...
SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py', 564, 37, ' os.path.exists(manifest):\n'))

pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (42)
pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (42)
dpkg: error processing ubiquity (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for menu ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ubiquity
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up ubiquity (1.13.5) ...
Compiling /usr/share/ubiquity/install.py ...
SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('/usr/share/ubiquity/install.py', 564, 37, ' os.path.exists(manifest):\n'))

pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (42)
pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (42)
dpkg: error processing ubiquity (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ubiquity

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 26 09:22:03 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: ubiquity 1.13.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-10.12-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Title: package ubiquity 1.13.5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-10-generic x86_64

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Javier Cabezas (javier-cabezas) wrote :
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Currently breaks live system build:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/livefs-build-logs/karmic/ubuntu/latest/livecd-20090626.1-amd64.out

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Karmic):
assignee: nobody → Colin Watson (cjwatson)
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → Triaged
milestone: none → karmic-alpha-3
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

This should fix it:

=== modified file 'scripts/install.py'
--- scripts/install.py 2009-06-17 09:29:59 +0000
+++ scripts/install.py 2009-06-26 15:49:57 +0000
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@
                                         'filesystem.manifest-desktop')
         manifest = os.path.join(self.casper_path, 'filesystem.manifest')
         if (os.path.exists(manifest_desktop) and
- os.path.exists(manifest):
+ os.path.exists(manifest)):
             desktop_packages = set()
             manifest = open(manifest_desktop)
             for line in manifest:

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 1.13.6

---------------
ubiquity (1.13.6) karmic; urgency=low

  * Fix syntax error in install.py (LP: #392424).
  * Add sanity-check on clean to stop trivial syntax errors like this being
    uploaded again.

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:27 +0100

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Karmic):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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