python2.5-minimal breaks update from Edgy to Feisty

apt.log

term.log

Thanks for your bugreport.

Can you please also add the file /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log?

Thanks,
 Michael

Well, due to the botched upgrade, the system in question is rather broken now - Most of my programs work but window management is broken.

My problem yesterday did not produce a main.log file. I seem to have run into a different issue today, but that might just be because the system is thoroughly by now. In any case, I will attach the main.log produced by it.

As the new bug prevents me from reproducing the old one, I have tried to do it manually ("sudo aptitude install python2.5-minimal"), and this gets me the attached error-message.

After reading the error message, I tried removing python-docutils and that lets me install python2.5-minimal without problems.

I need to post this now, since I cannot retry the upgrade process without closing Firefox. I will also post the main.log from the other issue, though I suspect that might have been fixed by way of fixing the other problem.
In any case, I'll post the main.log in my next comment.

main.log from the other incident, probably caused by the incomplete upgrade.

After the removal of python-docutils, I was able to complete the upgrade. Now I just hope it boots...

currently this is addressed in 2.5-5ubuntu8 by ignoring errors when byte-compiling packages when a new runtime is installed (rtinstall), there's no ideal solution:

 - moving rtinstall into the python2.5 package leaves packages
   unavailable when just python2.5-minimal is installed. site.py (config
   file) is not available, if python2.5-minimal is not yet configured.

- ignore the errors and re-run rtinstall in apt's Dpkg::Post-Invoke
  hook.

- move the codecs and encodings from the python2.5 package into
  python2.5-minimal. Increases the compressed size of -minimal
  by 580kB, omitting the multibyte codecs increases the size by 200k.

@Mikkel: I hope your system recovered?

Thanks for looking into this issue Matthias,

I like solution (3) best because it seems to be a small price to pay for more correctness.

Solution (2) would be good if we had dpkg triggers, but currently we have no way to register something in Dpkg::Post-Invoke

Thanks,
 Michael

fixed in python2.5_2.5-5ubuntu9 and python2.4_2.4.4-2ubuntu4

Yes, my system did indeed recover, and so far I am very impressed by
Feisty so far. I run it on my spare-time laptop, and I've only found a
few minor annoyances so far. Most of the system is rock solid...

On 07/03/07, Michael Vogt <email address hidden> wrote:
> @Mikkel: I hope your system recovered?
>
> Thanks for looking into this issue Matthias,
>
> I like solution (3) best because it seems to be a small price to pay for
> more correctness.
>
> Solution (2) would be good if we had dpkg triggers, but currently we
> have no way to register something in Dpkg::Post-Invoke
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
> --
> python2.5-minimal breaks update from Edgy to Feisty
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/88512
>

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Kind regards,
Mikkel Høgh

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