[SRU] "Could not install the upgrades" - installArchives() failed

Attaching /var/log/dist-upgrade/*.log as requested.

Here is what makes the upgrade fail:

Setting up mythtv-database (0.20-0.2ubuntu2) ...
Failed to connect to database: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) at -e line 5, <> line 1.
Failed to create database (incorrect admin username/password?)
If you supplied incorrect information, try:
dpkg-reconfigure --force mythtv-database
dpkg: error processing mythtv-database (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Hi Michael, thanks for that.

Presumably Mythtv was the only failure. It was a real hassle to get working on Dapper so I'm uninstalling anyway.

Cheers ... Paul

Paul,

What packages were you using for mythtv in dapper?

I've seen some similar things crop up, but i'm still not sure exactly where to point this bug at.

Mario,

http://www.ubuntu.moshen.de/dists/dapper/mythtv/

MythTV was working before I upgraded to Edgy (with 0.19-5 and 0.20).

Cheers ... Paul

Paul,
At this point i'm blaming this on mysql-server not running during the upgrade. It seems that mythtv-database is getting configured before mysql server is, and thus mysql server isn't started until later.

If you haven't already upgraded, can you do me a favor and upgrade mysql-server before doing update-manager? See if the upgrade does cleanly.

Sorry Mario but after rebooting yesterday everything was upgraded.

Mythtv was broken afterwards in regard to being unable to connect to mysql-server but this may have been due to my inadvertently selecting the new version of '/etc/mysql/my.cnf'. I'm not sure, I'm pretty new to Ubuntu (and Linux).

Thanks ... Paul

I got the same failure message, but in a different context? I'm testing an Edubuntu server (amd64) installation dist-upgrade and got the 'installArchives() failed' during restarting the DHCP server. I will attach the logs (note that I encountered other problems earlier in the upgrade process, so those will show up in the logs too, cf. bug 67133 about nfs-kernel-server).

I'm attaching a debdiff that should resolve this problem and allow mythtv-database to silently fail if mysql-server isn't running. It will be the user's responsibility to reconfigure the database if this happens.

It would be very nice if this fix could be backported to edgy so that a dapper->edgy upgrade does not fail on this step.

Hi,

from a first glimpse, the debdiff looks good. Just two minor minor things:
* distribution should be edgy-proposed
* the version should be 0.20-0.2ubuntu2.1~proposed1

+1, since I guess whoever does the upload can simply change these.

Oh, and Mario, please set yourself as assignee for this bug.

Cheers,
   Stefan.

I'm ready to upload this, if I can get 2 more +1's from the motu-sru, I'll go ahead.

+1 pending the adjustments that Stefan has mentioned.

+1 from me as well, also provided the adjustments Stefan mentioned are done.

Uploaded by Kees, thanks.

Accepted upload into edgy-proposed, please go ahead with QA testing.

Also, please do something to this dapper task, I guess it shoud just be rejected.

Tentatively closing dapper task. Please reopen and beat me up if this was wrong.

Oh, and pretty pleaes fix this in Feisty first. This was an oversight from my side, stable updates without a prior fix in Feisty are actually forbidden.

This is the same fix that's in feisty, so it shouldn't be a worry.

On 2/23/07, Martin Pitt <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Oh, and pretty pleaes fix this in Feisty first. This was an oversight
> from my side, stable updates without a prior fix in Feisty are actually
> forbidden.
>
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> [SRU] "Could not install the upgrades" - installArchives() failed
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/68400
>

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Mario Limonciello
<email address hidden>

Closing Feisty task as per Mario's comment.