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upgrade to edgy gives a popup complaining about nice values

Bug #67097 reported by anthony baxter on 2006-10-20

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
	xorg (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When I did an upgrade from 06.06 to 06.10, I got the following bad behaviour - a popup came up (screen shot attached) complaining about 'nice value must be between -19 and 20'. Clicking 'next' made it just reappear. I hit cancel, and got a segfault.

DESTROY created new reference to dead object ' Qt::VBoxLayout', <> line 2176 during global destruction.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN69> line 3.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN74> line 4.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN74> line 9.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN74> line 17.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN74> line 25.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN74> line 33.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN74> line 41.
/bin/sh: line 1: 23903 Segmentation fault /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt(

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anthony baxter (anthony) wrote on 2006-10-20:

debconf window complaining about nice values Edit (23.9 KiB, image/png)

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anthony baxter (anthony) wrote on 2006-10-20:

Forgot to mention that this was with "apt-get dist-upgrade"

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anthony baxter (anthony) wrote on 2006-10-20:

Awesome. This has totally boned my system now.
I'm stuck in "please use apt-get install -f" mode, but when I do, I get the popups.

Preparing to replace x11-common 7.0.0-0ubuntu45 (using .../x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu5_i386.deb) ...
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = "en_AU:en",
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_AU.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN1> line 4.
Use of uninitialized value in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Stack.pm line 104, <GEN1> line 9.
DESTROY created new reference to dead object ' Qt::VBoxLayout' during global destruction.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu5_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 255
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu5_i386.deb

Sigh. This is my production machine - serves me right for trying to help out with a release candidate, I guess.

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Santiago Gómez (evadido) wrote on 2006-10-29:

Hi all,
I resolved this issue resintalling x1-common-dev from synaptic (it appeared to be borken). It fixed the x11-common problem. Then I installed again xserver-xorg, and now it seems to work again.

Luck!