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Synaptic Package Manager ( internal error )

Bug #122161 reported by RAH66 on 2007-06-25

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #115592: Broken custom packages block apt since they cannot be reinstalled. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	synaptic (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: synaptic

I get this when opening Synaptic.

E: The package virtualbox needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.
E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 25 19:16:06 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-panel
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.18.1-0ubuntu3.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-panel --sm-client-id default1
ProcCwd: /home/rah
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_ZA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
Uname: Linux rah-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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RAH66 (rahoptix) wrote on 2007-06-25:

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (26.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (670 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote on 2007-06-25:

Hi, thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Please could you attach the file

/etc/apt/sources.list

We believe the problem may be with a third party repository.

Changed in synaptic:
status:	New → Incomplete

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RAH66 (rahoptix) wrote on 2007-06-26: Re: [Bug 122161] Re: Synaptic Package Manager ( internal error )

Roberto Sarrionandia wrote:
> Hi, thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better.
>
> Please could you attach the file
>
> /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> We believe the problem may be with a third party repository.
>
> ** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>
yeah I sorted out the problem by deleting the few lines in sources.list
of virtual box that said incomplete and then everything worked again but
this problem affects any package manager programs and to the average
user this is disaster .

Anyway thanks for the support it's amazing...

Thanx

Ruan Botha

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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote on 2007-06-26:

Thanks for your help, I think we can safely close this bug as it is a configuration error. :)

Changed in synaptic:
status:	Incomplete → Invalid

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote on 2007-06-26:

Have you canceled the installation of virtual box at the frist time? There was an error duringthe installation? Removing the corresponding line from the sources.list should not solve this bug - the other way arround you have to enable the repository again.

You have to reinstall the package as the error message suggests.

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RAH66 (rahoptix) wrote on 2007-06-26:

Roberto Sarrionandia wrote:
> Thanks for your help, I think we can safely close this bug as it is a
> configuration error. :)
>
> ** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Invalid
>
>
sorry this is the actual steps I took to fix the problem with virtual
box and synaptic
I found this is the UBUNTU Forums

1) use the following command to open nautilus with root privileges:
sudo nautilus

2) open the file:
/var/lib/dpkg/status

3) search for "XCOMPMGR" you should find the following lines:
Package: XCOMPMGR
Status: install reinstreq half-installed
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Version: 1.3.6_Ubuntu_edgy

4) Remove these lines from the file and save

You should now be able to use synaptic again!