Bug#329924: libgnome2-common: Installation fails (postinst) GConf-ERROR **: ...

[Vesa Voutilainen]

Hi Josselin,

I believe you've received good news, system works again. 

Somehow this thing happened and here's the info if you try to figure out why.

matt

On Saturday 24 September 2005 19:13, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 24 septembre 2005 à 18:50 +0300, Vesa Voutilainen a écrit :
> > > > No such file `/usr/lib/GConf/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so'
> > >
> > > Did you upgrade gconf2 in the same run?
> >
> > Booted system up this morning, with gconfd 2.10.1
>
> What Debian version?

sid

I have been having trouble with kpackage & synaptic with this error messge 
during install

Reading changelogs...
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08a8d3b0 ***
/bin/sh: line 1: 28043 Aborted                 /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure 
--apt

It seems to be trouble to somebody else as well, I recall seeing this message 
in bug report, don't recall what was the package, but it came with compiler 
updates to sid. I don't have an idea to which package this problem relates, 
perhaps it has something to do with compiler.

That problem above sometimes hangs upgrade, then apt-get -f install fixes 
things.

apt-get from command line works fine, so it could be something to do with 
graphics as well.

Haven't made any bug reports from that since problem is known. But if you have 
better idea where this comes or who should know about it, well, please 
forward this.

>
> > , then later on upgraded
> > gnome based files as a bunch, with kde did the same thing, first upgraded
> > auxiliary things not related to kde, then big amount of kde core
> > components at the same time, had previously trouble with partial
> > upgrades, so tried to upgrade as much as possible which are related to
> > each other. With kde everything worked, with gnome no.
>
> Thanks for sending so many details, but things as "it doesn't work"
> aren't helpdul.
>
I know but describes things best, when you upgrade large amount of packages, 
sorry.

> > From boot:
> >
> > Sep 24 09:46:39 localhost gconfd (tampio-2886): starting (version
> > 2.10.1), pid 2886 user 'tampio'
> > Sep 24 09:46:40 localhost gconfd (tampio-2886): Resolved address
> > "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only
> > configuration source at position 0
>
> Could you attach the whole gconfd cruft output in your syslog from boot
> to the moment you sent your bug report?
> More importantly, I need the dpkg log (/var/log/dpkg.log) of your
> upgrades.

Here you go:

USER.LOG


Sep 24 09:46:39 localhost gconfd (tampio-2886): starting (version 2.10.1), pid 
2886 user 'tampio'
Sep 24 09:46:40 localhost gconfd (tampio-2886): Resolved address 
"xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration 
source at position 0



XXXXXX CUT BY pkg-gnome-maintainers moderator.  XXXXXXX



2005-09-24 20:03:44 status unpacked libquantlib-0.3.10 0.3.10-1
2005-09-24 20:03:44 status half-configured libquantlib-0.3.10 0.3.10-1
2005-09-24 20:04:16 status installed libquantlib-0.3.10 0.3.10-1
2005-09-24 20:04:16 status unpacked quantlib-examples 0.3.10-1
2005-09-24 20:04:16 status half-configured quantlib-examples 0.3.10-1
2005-09-24 20:04:16 status installed quantlib-examples 0.3.10-1
2005-09-24 20:04:16 status unpacked quantlib-refman 0.3.10-1
2005-09-24 20:04:16 status half-configured quantlib-refman 0.3.10-1
2005-09-24 20:04:16 status installed quantlib-refman 0.3.10-1
2005-09-24 20:04:16 status unpacked quantlib-refman-html 0.3.10-1
2005-09-24 20:04:16 status half-configured quantlib-refman-html 0.3.10-1
2005-09-24 20:04:17 status installed quantlib-refman-html 0.3.10-1
2005-09-24 20:13:23 upgrade r-cran-vr 7.2.12-1 7.2.20-1
2005-09-24 20:13:23 status half-configured r-cran-vr 7.2.12-1
2005-09-24 20:13:23 status unpacked r-cran-vr 7.2.12-1
2005-09-24 20:13:23 status half-installed r-cran-vr 7.2.12-1
2005-09-24 20:13:25 status half-installed r-cran-vr 7.2.12-1
2005-09-24 20:13:27 status unpacked r-cran-vr 7.2.20-1
2005-09-24 20:13:27 status unpacked r-cran-vr 7.2.20-1
2005-09-24 20:13:29 status unpacked r-cran-vr 7.2.20-1
2005-09-24 20:13:29 status half-configured r-cran-vr 7.2.20-1
2005-09-24 20:13:30 status installed r-cran-vr 7.2.20-1


>
> > Probably, didn't look at the processes at that time. Nope, it is not
> > running anymore and install won't work.
>
> Install won't work? With what error message?

Same as mentioned earlier.

Setting up libgnome2-common (2.10.1-1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgnome2-common.postinst: line 7: 15593 Segmentation fault      
HOME=/root GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 --get-default-source` gconftool-2 
--makefile-install-rule
$SCHEMA_LOCATION/$SCHEMA >/dev/null
dpkg: error processing libgnome2-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgnome2-0:
  libgnome2-0 depends on libgnome2-common (= 2.10.1-1); however:
    Package libgnome2-common is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing libgnome2-0 (--configure):
     dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
     Errors were encountered while processing:
      libgnome2-common
       libgnome2-0
       E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)