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openjdk-7 package

package openjdk-7-jre-headless (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: conffile './etc/java-7-openjdk/fontconfig.bfc' is not in sync with other instances of the same package

Bug #964303 reported by trustin on 2012-03-25

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This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	openjdk-7 (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
	Precise	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned	Ubuntu precise-updates

Bug Description

I had amd64 version of openjdk 7 installed already and attempted to install the i386 one. apt-get entered some weird state where the installation fails. I think at least apt-get (or dpkg) should reject such an attempt or make the installation work.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: openjdk-7-jre-headless (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 24 12:39:53 2012
ErrorMessage: conffile './etc/java-7-openjdk/fontconfig.bfc' is not in sync with other instances of the same package
SourcePackage: openjdk-7
Title: package openjdk-7-jre-headless (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: conffile './etc/java-7-openjdk/fontconfig.bfc' is not in sync with other instances of the same package
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-20 (4 days ago)

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trustin (trustin) wrote on 2012-03-25:

#1

AptOrdering.txt Edit (421 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (453 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (232.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (133.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (619 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DuplicateSignature.txt Edit (316 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2012-03-25

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removed: need-duplicate-check

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-03-27:

#2

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in openjdk-7 (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Michael Milligan (milli) wrote on 2012-03-29:

#3

I just ripped open both the amd64 package and the i386 package... these file '/etc/java-7-openjdk/fontconfig.bfc' is actually "in sync" between the two packages, but both are files of 0 length. I think this may be a compare bug in the pre/postinst files? Or a bug in dpkg itself?

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Michael Milligan (milli) wrote on 2012-03-29:

#4

Yeah, looks like this may be an issue in dpkg...

# strings /usr/bin/dpkg | grep is\ not\ in
conffile '%s' is not in sync with other instances of the same package
  %.250s is not installed.
  Package %s which provides %s is not installed.
  Package %s is not installed.

# dpkg -S /usr/bin/dpkg
dpkg: /usr/bin/dpkg

# dpkg -l dpkg
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================================-======================================-============================================================================================
ii dpkg 1.16.1.2ubuntu5 Debian package management system

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote on 2012-09-03:

#5

fontconfig.bfc not shipped anymore in quantal

Changed in openjdk-7 (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in openjdk-7 (Ubuntu Precise):
milestone:	none → precise-updates

Peter J. Mello (roguescholar) on 2019-12-10

Changed in openjdk-7 (Ubuntu Precise):
status:	New → Fix Released

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