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ghostscript package

ghostscript update-alternatives problems on upgrade

Bug #195088 reported by jsdixon
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: ghostscript

Upgrading gs causes issues with packages not installed (ubuntu-desktop) because of this failure.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 24 14:59:11 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gs-common 8.61.dfsg.1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ghostscript
Title: package gs-common 8.61.dfsg.1-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Uname: Linux somerset 2.6.24-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 20:13:27 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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jsdixon (johnsdixon) wrote :
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James Westby (james-w) wrote :

Hi,

The relevant bit is

Setting up ghostscript (8.61.dfsg.1-1ubuntu2) ...

update-alternatives: error or eof reading /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/ps2pdf for update_mode ()

dpkg: error processing ghostscript (--configure):

 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Could you tell us if you have a /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/ps2pdf and if you do
what the contents of it are please?

Thanks,

James

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jsdixon (johnsdixon) wrote :

Yes I do have such a file, but it's empty!

xxx@somerset:/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives$ ls -la ps2pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 7 08:32 ps2pdf

Removing the file has fixed the problem, ubuntu-desktop, ghostscript and dependencies now install correctly.

Thanks.
John.

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James Westby (james-w) wrote :

Hi,

It is odd that this file was truncated. Have you experienced any
power failures during upgrade? Are your hard disks reliable?

Thanks,

James

James Westby (james-w)
Changed in ghostscript:
status: New → Incomplete
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Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in ghostscript:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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