dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Gerry,

I noticed you reported a second bug 215447 at the same time as this one. Did these errors occur during th e same upgrade or were they separate incidents? If they are separate could you attach log files from /var/log/dist-upgrade to this report. Could you also tell us which versions of ubuntu you are upgrading from and to. If these errors are from the same upgrade then lets follow up in 215447 and attach the logs there.

In the process of the upgrade I received this error message several times. I had some trouble generating the bug reports as there were a lot of problems. I was upgrading from Kubuntu 7.10 to the 8.04 beta. The upgrade was unsuccessful, apparently because of a problem with the nvidia driver and as result at the moment I am at command line only on that machine. I wll try to retrieve the log in the process of my troubleshooting, but I'm still relatively new at Linux, so it may take some time with ?? as far as results. I have two other workign Linux distros and a laptop that runs XP as well as a computer at work (this one) so if I can retrieve it you'll get it.

Gerry

From: Richard Birnie <email address hidden>
Date: 2008/04/11 Fri PM 12:53:42 CDT
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 215446] Re: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Gerry,

I noticed you reported a second bug 215447 at the same time as this one.
Did these errors occur during th e same upgrade or were they separate
incidents? If they are separate could you attach log files from /var/log
/dist-upgrade to this report. Could you also tell us which versions of
ubuntu you are upgrading from and to. If these errors are from the same
upgrade then lets follow up in 215447 and attach the logs there.

** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Gerry,

thanks for following up. Here are instructions to recover the log files;

Once you have logged in to the commandline run the following commands

sudo aptitude install pastebinit

This installs a program called pastebinit which allows you to send a file directly to a public pastebin on the web which can then be recovered. To do this run the following commands
pastebinit -i /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log
pastebinit -i /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log
pastebinit -i /var/log/dist-upgrade/term.log

Each of those lines will return a URL. Write them down and post them in this bug report. The URL is case sensitive so be specific.

thanks
Rich

Gerry e-mailed the logs directly to me so I've packaged them up and am attaching them here. I might have got apt.log and apt-term.log since I had to guess from the contents which was which

The root of the problem seems to be something around libc6. main.log has the following
################
2008-04-10 09:34:05,553 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'libc6': 'subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped
'
2008-04-10 09:34:05,565 DEBUG running apport_pkgfailure() libc6: subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped

2008-04-10 09:34:05,678 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'libc6': 'subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped
'
2008-04-10 20:09:57,327 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: '/var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i686_2.7-10ubuntu3_i386.deb': 'pre-dependency problem - not installing libc6-i686
################

apt-term.log suggests the same as below:
################
Preparing to replace libc6 2.6.1-1ubuntu10 (using .../libc6_2.7-10ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libc6 ...
Setting up libc6 (2.7-10ubuntu3) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/glibc.sh ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/gai.conf ...
*** stack smashing detected ***: /usr/bin/perl terminated
dpkg: error processing libc6 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault), core dumped
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libc6
dpkg: regarding .../libc6-i686_2.7-10ubuntu3_i386.deb containing libc6-i686, pre-dependency problem:
 libc6-i686 pre-depends on libc6 (= 2.7-10ubuntu3)
 libc6 latest configured version is 2.6.1-1ubuntu10.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6-i686_2.7-10ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):
 pre-dependency problem - not installing libc6-i686
#######################

This looks like it might be the same as bug 205836 but I'd need somebody more knowledgable to check. The only difference I can see is the version numbers. This bug has libc6_2.7-10ubuntu3_i386.deb, 205836 has libc6_2.7-9ubuntu2_i386.deb

After following up in #ubuntu-bugs on irc it seems both this bug and 205836 are instances of bug 205079 for which a fix has now been released. Marking as duplicate. Thanks for following through everybody