Bug#659784: Same here - libblas3 #659784

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Hi. 

Having same problem here. Not opening another bug, since this is
alread reported; but this deserves the "important" tag because it is
now breaking other packages. I am however refraining from doing so
because I am no expert on packaging policy. 

This system is updated to experimental very frequently (2/3 times a
week); but this issue has appeared only today - with the last upgrade
3/4 days back.


paivakil at nandini:~$ sudo aptitude -f install
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  libblas3 libblas3gf liblapack3 liblapack3gf 
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
Setting up libblas3 (1.2.20110419-3~exp3) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative libblas.so.3gf can't be slave of libblas.so.3: it is a master alternative.
dpkg: error processing libblas3 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libblas3gf:
 libblas3gf depends on libblas3; however:
  Package libblas3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libblas3gf (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of liblapack3:
 liblapack3 depends on libblas3gf | libblas.so.3gf | libatlas3gf-base; however:
  Package libblas3gf is not configured yet.
  Package libblas3 which provides libblas3gf is not configured yet.
  Package libblas.so.3gf is not installed.
  Package libblas3 which provides libblas.so.3gf is not configured yet.
  Package libatlas3gf-base is not installed.
dpkg: error processing liblapack3 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of liblapack3gf:
 liblapack3gf depends on liblapack3; however:
  Package liblapack3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing liblapack3gf (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libblas3
 libblas3gf
 liblapack3
 liblapack3gf
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up libblas3 (1.2.20110419-3~exp3) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative libblas.so.3gf can't be slave of libblas.so.3: it is a master alternative.
dpkg: error processing libblas3 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libblas3gf:
 libblas3gf depends on libblas3; however:
  Package libblas3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libblas3gf (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of liblapack3:
 liblapack3 depends on libblas3gf | libblas.so.3gf | libatlas3gf-base; however:
  Package libblas3gf is not configured yet.
  Package libblas3 which provides libblas3gf is not configured yet.
  Package libblas.so.3gf is not installed.
  Package libblas3 which provides libblas.so.3gf is not configured yet.
  Package libatlas3gf-base is not installed.
dpkg: error processing liblapack3 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of liblapack3gf:
 liblapack3gf depends on liblapack3; however:
  Package liblapack3 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing liblapack3gf (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libblas3
 libblas3gf
 liblapack3
 liblapack3gf
                                         
paivakil at nandini:~$ sudo dpkg --configure libblas3
Setting up libblas3 (1.2.20110419-3~exp3) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative libblas.so.3gf can't be slave of libblas.so.3: it is a master alternative.
dpkg: error processing libblas3 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libblas3


Since this is breaking other packages, hope this will be taken as an
important bug.

Had not noticed what is going on, so do not have what exactly
transpired with the upgrade command. I suspect it is irrelevant
anyway.


Thanks in advance. 


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