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dist-upgrade feisty to gutsy fails

Bug #137290 reported by Morten Kjeldgaard
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Bug Description

I attempted a dist-upgrade of an up-to-date Kubuntu feisty system today. This is my second time, both times failed, but this time, I made notes.

(1) replaced all instances of "feisty" in /etc/apt/sources.list with "gutsy"
(2) apt-get update
(3) apt-get dist-upgrade. Packages were downloaded, and unpacking started. At some point, I got this error message:

Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/guidance-backends_0.8.0svn20070727-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/kaddressbook_4%3a3.5.7enterprise20070828really20070825-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/karm_4%3a3.5.7enterprise20070828really20070825-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libkbluetooth0_1.0~beta6~r707240-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/kmail_4%3a3.5.7enterprise20070828really20070825-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/knotes_4%3a3.5.7enterprise20070828really20070825-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/korganizer_4%3a3.5.7enterprise20070828really20070825-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

(4) I then did apt-get install -f, and the installation process continued like this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libmpfr1 libgmp3-dev libgpod1 guile-1.8-libs gaim-data rcs liblzo-dev
  libgs-esp8
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  guidance-backends kaddressbook libkbluetooth0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  guidance-backends libkbluetooth0
The following packages will be upgraded:
  kaddressbook
1 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 248 not upgraded.
1097 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/1824kB of archives.
After unpacking 1905kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

I answered "y" here, and got the following output:

ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
(Reading database ... 205691 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking guidance-backends (from .../guidance-backends_0.8.0svn20070727-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking libkbluetooth0 (from .../libkbluetooth0_1.0~beta6~r707240-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Preparing to replace kaddressbook 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu6 (using .../kaddressbook_4%3a3.5.7enterprise20070828really20070825-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement kaddressbook ...
Setting up libc6-i686 (2.6.1-1ubuntu3) ...

Setting up dash (0.5.4-1ubuntu2) ...

Setting up libntfs-3g5 (1:1.710-1ubuntu2) ...

Setting up ntfs-3g (1:1.710-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting ntfs-3g suid root with group fuse...done
Users from 'fuse' group can now mount NTFS volume.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)

Setting up console-data (2:1.02-2ubuntu1) ...

... etc. The install process now continued till the end without further problems.

I have not yet rebooted the machine, but will append comments to this bug report if I run into further problems.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report as such. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. http://launchpad.net/support

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Morten Kjeldgaard (mok0) wrote :

Thanks for the link to the support tracker, but unfortunately Launchpad is a maze that is quite difficult to navigate. The "Answers" section is quite prominent on Launchpad's main page, but I've often wondered how to ask questions. I just haven't been able to locate a "Ask a question" button or link anywhere. Again today, browsing around I couldn't figure it out. I guess I'm too old or to dumb or both... So, since I've found out how to use the bug report feature, I'll continue my account here. Sorry.

After rebooting, I discovered that /var/log/messages recieves thousands of messages like this (approximately 10/sec).

Sep 4 18:53:49 sebulpa kernel: [ 653.552000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Sep 4 18:53:49 sebulpa last message repeated 3 times
Sep 4 18:53:50 sebulpa kernel: [ 653.936000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Sep 4 18:53:50 sebulpa kernel: [ 653.972000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Sep 4 18:53:50 sebulpa kernel: [ 654.016000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
Sep 4 18:53:50 sebulpa kernel: [ 654.052000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table

It was suggested on IRC that I should do an "apt-get upgrade" which I did, it upgraded another ~250 packages (why?) and finally I was down to 3 that were held back (it's a bug, I'll report it separately).

After reboot, my system is still generating the above messages, and the /var/log space is rapidly filling up.

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Morten Kjeldgaard (mok0) wrote :

This problem has been addressed in Bug #115616. The solution is:

aptitude remove evms

and reboot.

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