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jaunty upgrade fails when libboost-python-dev is installed

Bug #339100 reported by Alastair Porter
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boost (Ubuntu)
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Medium
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: libboost-python-dev

While performing an upgrade from intrepid to jaunty (using do-release-upgrade -d), an error occurs while setting up python 2.6.

as part of the rtupdate hooks, the file
/usr/share/python/runtime.d/libboost-python-dev.rtupdate
is processed if libboost-python-dev is installed. The version of this file installed with intrepid does not have a stanza in it to support being passed python2.6 as an argument, so the install fails. Removing libboost-python-dev via dpkg --remove allows apt-get -f install to continue setting up packages. Reinstalling the package shows there is now a stanza for python 2.6.

Sorry I don't have more specific output to paste, I lost the scrollback on my terminal while trying to fix the problem.

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sparr (sparr0) wrote :

More detailed output, also including another python upgrade problem. I had to remove libboost-dbg and libboost-python-dev and pitivi, then python upgraded successfully. Should this one bug encompass all 3 problems, or should separate bugs be opened?

Setting up python (2.6.1-0ubuntu3) ...
running python rtupdate hooks for python2.6...
/usr/share/python/runtime.d/libboost-dbg.rtupdate unknown python version python2.6
error running python rtupdate hook libboost-dbg
/usr/share/python/runtime.d/libboost-python-dev.rtupdate unknown python version python2.6
error running python rtupdate hook libboost-python-dev
Compiling /usr/lib/pitivi/python/pitivi/objectfactory.py ...
SyntaxError: ('invalid syntax', ('/usr/lib/pitivi/python/pitivi/objectfactory.py', 399, 14, ' as = self.audio_info_stream\n'))

pycentral: pycentral updatedefault: error byte-compiling files (55)
pycentral updatedefault: error byte-compiling files (55)
error running python rtupdate hook pycentral
Updating *.pc symlinks for python-gst0.10...
Updating *.pc symlinks for python-gtk2-dev...
dpkg: error processing python (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4
Errors were encountered while processing:
 python

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Per Ångström (autark) wrote :

I ran into a similar problem while doing an ordinary system update (Jaunty development branch): during the update some problems were reported concerning python, and on reboot the system was almost unusable; the update had apparently been aborted due to python not being available, so the window manager wouldn't start, among other things. When I had reconfigured X manually, Gnome would just hang. The worst thing: even "dpgk --configure -a" wouldn't work, running into an infinite loop. Only by removing package
 libboost-python1.35-dev 1.35.0-8ubuntu4 1.35.0-8ubuntu4 was I able to fix the mess.

I'm absolutely chocked by the fact that a single dependency problem in a fairly unimportant module can have such dire consequences. What could I have done had I been less experienced with the command line - I think I would have had to reinstall from scratch.

I'm attaching the log from the failed install and the recovery.

Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)
Changed in boost (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

python 2.6.1-0ubuntu7 now conflicts with the buggy libboost-python*-dev versions

Changed in boost (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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