Bug#766758: ekiga is half-installed

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.net
Sat Oct 25 14:55:44 UTC 2014


Package: ekiga
Version: 4.0.1-5
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software

ekiga has been half-installed. I didn't got any error, though.
>From /var/log/dpkg.log (lines matching ekiga):

2014-10-25 10:54:27 upgrade ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-4+b2 4.0.1-5
2014-10-25 10:54:27 status half-configured ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-4+b2
2014-10-25 10:54:27 status unpacked ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-4+b2
2014-10-25 10:54:27 status half-installed ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-4+b2
2014-10-25 10:54:27 status half-installed ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-4+b2
2014-10-25 10:54:29 status triggers-pending gconf2:amd64 3.2.6-3
2014-10-25 10:54:29 status half-installed ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-4+b2
2014-10-25 10:54:29 status half-installed ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-4+b2
2014-10-25 10:54:31 status half-installed ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-4+b2
2014-10-25 10:54:37 status half-installed ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-4+b2
2014-10-25 10:54:37 status unpacked ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-5
2014-10-25 10:54:37 status unpacked ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-5
[...]
2014-10-25 10:56:55 configure ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-5 <none>
2014-10-25 10:56:55 status unpacked ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-5
2014-10-25 10:56:55 status half-configured ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-5
2014-10-25 10:56:55 status triggers-awaited ekiga:amd64 4.0.1-5

and from the /var/log/aptitude log file:

Aptitude 0.6.11: log report
Sat, Oct 25 2014 13:33:45 +0200

IMPORTANT: this log only lists intended actions; actions which fail due to
dpkg problems may not be completed.

Will install 0 packages, and remove 0 packages.
===============================================================================
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] gir1.2-gudev-1.0:amd64
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] gnome-control-center-data:amd64
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] gnome-themes-standard-data:amd64
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] libevdocument3-4:amd64
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] libevview3-3:amd64
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] libgtk-3-common:amd64
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] libgtksourceview-3.0-1:amd64
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] libpam-systemd:amd64
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] libsystemd-daemon0:amd64
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] libsystemd-journal0:amd64
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] libsystemd-login0:amd64
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] libudev1:amd64
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] systemd:amd64
[HOLD, DEPENDENCIES] totem-common:amd64
[HOLD] cheese:amd64
[HOLD] cheese-common:amd64
[HOLD] eog:amd64
[HOLD] epiphany-browser:amd64
[HOLD] epiphany-browser-data:amd64
[HOLD] evince:amd64
[HOLD] evince-common:amd64
[HOLD] file-roller:amd64
[HOLD] four-in-a-row:amd64
[HOLD] fvwm:amd64
[HOLD] gedit:amd64
[HOLD] gedit-common:amd64
[HOLD] gir1.2-evince-3.0:amd64
[HOLD] gir1.2-gtk-3.0:amd64
[HOLD] gir1.2-gtksource-3.0:amd64
[HOLD] gir1.2-totem-1.0:amd64
[HOLD] gnome-chess:amd64
[HOLD] gnome-control-center:amd64
[HOLD] gnome-mahjongg:amd64
[HOLD] gnome-sudoku:amd64
[HOLD] gnome-system-monitor:amd64
[HOLD] gnome-themes-standard:amd64
[HOLD] gnuplot:amd64
[HOLD] gnuplot-doc:amd64
[HOLD] gnuplot-qt:amd64
[HOLD] grep:amd64
[HOLD] gthumb:amd64
[HOLD] gthumb-data:amd64
[HOLD] initramfs-tools:amd64
[HOLD] libcheese-gtk23:amd64
[HOLD] libcheese7:amd64
[HOLD] libgail-3-0:amd64
[HOLD] libgtk-3-0:amd64
[HOLD] libgtk-3-0-dbg:amd64
[HOLD] libgtk-3-bin:amd64
[HOLD] libgtk-3-dev:amd64
[HOLD] libgtkmm-3.0-1:amd64
[HOLD] libgudev-1.0-0:amd64
[HOLD] libnautilus-extension1a:amd64
[HOLD] libtotem0:amd64
[HOLD] libxml2:amd64
[HOLD] libxml2-dbg:amd64
[HOLD] libxml2-dev:amd64
[HOLD] libxml2-utils:amd64
[HOLD] libyelp0:amd64
[HOLD] nautilus:amd64
[HOLD] nautilus-data:amd64
[HOLD] pavucontrol:amd64
[HOLD] pavucontrol-dbg:amd64
[HOLD] systemd-shim:amd64
[HOLD] totem:amd64
[HOLD] totem-plugins:amd64
[HOLD] udev:amd64
[HOLD] xmlcopyeditor:amd64
[HOLD] xmlcopyeditor-dbg:amd64
[HOLD] yelp:amd64
[UNCONFIGURED] ekiga:amd64
[UNCONFIGURED] gconf2:amd64
===============================================================================

Log complete.

Because of that, the status file is in an improper state, and
this breaks deborphan at least:

# deborphan
deborphan: The status file is in an improper state.
One or more packages are marked as half-installed, half-configured,
unpacked, triggers-awaited or triggers-pending. Exiting.

"apt-get install -f" just says:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
[...]
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 70 not upgraded.

and does nothing.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ekiga depends on:
ii  gconf-service           3.2.6-3
it  gconf2                  3.2.6-3
ii  gnome-icon-theme        3.12.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0             2.14.0-1
ii  libavahi-client3        0.6.31-4
ii  libavahi-common3        0.6.31-4
ii  libavahi-glib1          0.6.31-4
ii  libboost-signals1.55.0  1.55.0+dfsg-3
ii  libc6                   2.19-12
ii  libcairo2               1.14.0-2
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.8.8-2
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.102-1
ii  libfontconfig1          2.11.0-6.1
ii  libfreetype6            2.5.2-2
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.9.1-19
ii  libgconf-2-4            3.2.6-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0      2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.42.0-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.24.25-1
ii  libidn11                1.29-1
ii  libldap-2.4-2           2.4.40-2
ii  libloudmouth1-0         1.4.3-12
ii  libnotify4              0.7.6-2
ii  libopal3.10.10          3.10.10~dfsg-2.2+b2
ii  libpango-1.0-0          1.36.8-2
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0     1.36.8-2
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0       1.36.8-2
ii  libpt2.10.10            2.10.10~dfsg-4.1
ii  libsasl2-2              2.1.26.dfsg1-12
ii  libspeexdsp1            1.2~rc1.2-1
ii  libstdc++6              4.9.1-19
ii  libx11-6                2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxext6                2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxml2                 2.9.1+dfsg1-3
ii  libxv1                  2:1.0.10-1

Versions of packages ekiga recommends:
ii  gvfs  1.22.1-1
ii  yelp  3.12.0-1

Versions of packages ekiga suggests:
pn  asterisk                <none>
pn  ekiga-plugin-evolution  <none>
pn  gnugk                   <none>
pn  mediaproxy              <none>
pn  rtpproxy                <none>
pn  ser                     <none>
pn  siproxd                 <none>
pn  yate                    <none>

-- no debconf information




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