package lubuntu-default-settings 0.12 failed to upgrade: rm: cannot remove `/etc/alternatives/lxdm.conf': No such file or directory

Bug #654211 reported by aguy
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This bug affects 16 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
lubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Julien Lavergne

Bug Description

Binary package hint: lubuntu-default-settings

I logged into ubuntu 10.10 and tried apt-get upgrade

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: lubuntu-default-settings 0.12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 3 18:53:47 2010
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: lubuntu-default-settings
Title: package lubuntu-default-settings 0.12 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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aguy (astyguy-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
summary: - package lubuntu-default-settings 0.12 failed to install/upgrade:
- subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status
- 1
+ package lubuntu-default-settings 0.12 failed to install/upgrade: rm:
+ cannot remove `/etc/alternatives/lxdm.conf': No such file or directory
summary: - package lubuntu-default-settings 0.12 failed to install/upgrade: rm:
+ package lubuntu-default-settings 0.12 failed to upgrade from 0.11: rm:
cannot remove `/etc/alternatives/lxdm.conf': No such file or directory
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote : Re: package lubuntu-default-settings 0.12 failed to upgrade from 0.11: rm: cannot remove `/etc/alternatives/lxdm.conf': No such file or directory

Confirmed by duplicates and reproduced by installing 0.6.1 then upgrading to 0.12 in maverick.
Setting importance to high

Changed in lubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
summary: - package lubuntu-default-settings 0.12 failed to upgrade from 0.11: rm:
- cannot remove `/etc/alternatives/lxdm.conf': No such file or directory
+ package lubuntu-default-settings 0.12 failed to upgrade: rm: cannot
+ remove `/etc/alternatives/lxdm.conf': No such file or directory
Julien Lavergne (gilir)
Changed in lubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Julien Lavergne (gilir)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package lubuntu-default-settings - 0.13

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lubuntu-default-settings (0.13) maverick; urgency=low

  * debian/postinst:
   - Don't fail if the alternative file doesn't exist. (LP: #654211)
 -- Julien Lavergne <email address hidden> Mon, 04 Oct 2010 23:16:56 +0200

Changed in lubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

The package is not build on amd64 and problem still exits on this arch

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Julien Lavergne (gilir) wrote :

It's the same package for i386 and amd64 (arch: all). But all mirrors should not be updated yet.

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