Bug#531704: error: no alternatives for gnome-video-thumbnailer

[Fabian Greffrath]

Package: totem
Version: 2.27.1-1
Severity: grave

Hi,

installing the new gstreamer-only totem packages (totem, totem-commom, 
totem-mozilla, totem-plugins) on my system failed during configure phase:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
   totem totem-mozilla totem-plugins
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up totem (2.27.1-1) ...
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for gnome-video-thumbnailer.
dpkg: error processing totem (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit 
status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of totem-plugins:
  totem-plugins depends on totem (= 2.27.1-1); however:
   Package totem is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing totem-plugins (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of totem-mozilla:
  totem-mozilla depends on totem (>= 2.27.1-1); however:
   Package totem is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing totem-mozilla (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
  totem
  totem-plugins
  totem-mozilla
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up totem (2.27.1-1) ...
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for gnome-video-thumbnailer.
dpkg: error processing totem (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit 
status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of totem-mozilla:
  totem-mozilla depends on totem (>= 2.27.1-1); however:
   Package totem is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing totem-mozilla (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of totem-plugins:
  totem-plugins depends on totem (= 2.27.1-1); however:
   Package totem is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing totem-plugins (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
  totem
  totem-mozilla
  totem-plugins
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done

Fabian


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
   APT prefers unstable
   APT policy: (450, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages totem depends on:
ii  gnome-icon-theme       2.26.0-1          GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa [gs 0.10.23-2         GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs 0.10.23-2         GStreamer plugin for GnomeVFS
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.23-2         GStreamer plugins from 
the "base"
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins- 0.10.15-1         GStreamer plugins from 
the "good"
ii  gstreamer0.10-x        0.10.23-2         GStreamer plugins for X11 
and Pang
ii  iso-codes              3.10-1            ISO language, territory, 
currency,
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.26.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.9-13            GNU C Library: Shared 
libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2+b1        The Cairo 2D vector 
graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.14-2          simple interprocess 
messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.80-4            simple interprocess 
messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font 
configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-5           FreeType 2 font engine, 
shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.26.2-1          GNOME configuration 
database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.3-1          The GLib library of C 
routines
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.23-2         GStreamer libraries from 
the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.23-1         Core GStreamer libraries 
and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.16.1-2          The GTK+ graphical user 
interface
ii  libice6                2:1.0.5-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange 
library
ii  libnautilus-extension1 2.26.2-5          libraries for nautilus 
components
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.2-1          Layout and rendering of 
internatio
ii  libsm6                 2:1.1.0-2         X11 Session Management 
library
ii  libtotem-plparser12    2.26.2-1          Totem Playlist Parser 
library - ru
ii  libunique-1.0-0        1.0.8-1           Library for writing 
single instanc
ii  libx11-6               2:1.2.1-1         X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                2.7.3.dfsg-1      GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.3.0-2         X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxtst6               2:1.0.3-1         X11 Testing -- Resource 
extension
ii  libxxf86vm1            1:1.0.2-1         X11 XFree86 video mode 
extension l
ii  python                 2.5.4-2           An interactive high-level 
object-o
ii  python-support         1.0.3             automated rebuilding 
support for P
ii  python2.5              2.5.4-1           An interactive high-level 
object-o
ii  totem-common           2.27.1-1          Data files for the Totem 
media pla
pn  totem-plugins          <none>            (no description available)
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages totem recommends:
pn  gnome-codec-install           <none>     (no description available)
pn  gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg          <none>     (no description available)
pn  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad     <none>     (no description available)
pn  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly    <none>     (no description available)
pn  totem-mozilla                 <none>     (no description available)

totem suggests no packages.

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