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update-notifier package

update-notifier error during update

Bug #150689 reported by Michael Lustfield
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-notifier

I'm sure there's a duplicate that I haven't been able to find, so I'll keep this to the point.

Occurred after doing an update.

michael@MPLUSTFIELDT01:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up update-notifier (0.60) ...
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/update-notifier.schemas:12: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: default line 7 and schema
    </schema>
             ^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/update-notifier.schemas:14: parser error : expected '>'
  </schemalist>
          ^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/update-notifier.schemas:15: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: schemalist line 2 and gconfschemafile
</gconfschemafile>
                  ^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/update-notifier.schemas:16: parser error : Premature end of data in tag gconfschemafile line 1

^
dpkg: error processing update-notifier (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 update-notifier
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
michael@MPLUSTFIELDT01:~$

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Albert Damen (albrt) wrote :

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Dale (quail-linux) wrote :

2.6.22-13-generic #1 SMP Thu Oct 4 17:18:44 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Today when doing Gutsy updates i got similar error at the end of all the updates finished using the update manager. Below is the output of my error.

<quote>
Errors were encountered while processing:
 update-notifier
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up update-notifier (0.60) ...
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/update-notifier.schemas:12: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: default line 7 and schema
    </schema>
             ^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/update-notifier.schemas:14: parser error : expected '>'
  </schemalist>
          ^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/update-notifier.schemas:15: parser error : Opening and ending tag mismatch: schemalist line 2 and gconfschemafile
</gconfschemafile>
                  ^
/usr/share/gconf/schemas/update-notifier.schemas:16: parser error : Premature end of data in tag gconfschemafile line 1

^
dpkg: error processing update-notifier (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
</quote>

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Michael Lustfield (michaellustfield) wrote :

Where has this particular bug been reported? I think that part was forgotten.

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