[Pkg-gridengine-devel] Bug#531924: gridengine-common: package does not install if preseeding is weirdly set

[Tim Skirvin]

Package: gridengine-common
Version: 6.2-4
Severity: important


I'm attempting to install gridengine-common with a set of preseeded
information (none of which I'm necessarily happy with at the moment, but
I'll talk about that in future bug reports).  When I attempt to install
the package, it hangs at this point:

    senpai:/root# aptitude install gridengine-common
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    Reading extended state information
    Initializing package states... Done
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      gridengine-common
    0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0B/352kB of archives. After unpacking 901kB will be used.
    Writing extended state information... Done
    Preconfiguring packages ...
    Selecting previously deselected package gridengine-common.
    (Reading database ... 35693 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking gridengine-common (from .../gridengine-common_6.2-4_all.deb) ...
    Processing triggers for man-db ...
    Setting up gridengine-common (6.2-4) ...
    GET shared/gridengineconfig

I can press 'enter' to get through this, but something has clearly gone
wrong by this point.  This is not cleared up by an 'aptitude purge';
indeed, to continue the cut-and-paste:


    X_LOADTEMPLATEFILE /var/lib/dpkg/info/ucf.templates ucf


    Creating config file /etc/default/gridengine with new version
    STOP

    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    Reading extended state information
    Initializing package states... Done
    Writing extended state information... Done

    senpai:/root# aptitude purge gridengine-common
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    Reading extended state information      
    Initializing package states... Done
    The following packages will be REMOVED:
      gridengine-common{p} 
    0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 901kB will be freed.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
    Writing extended state information... Done
    (Reading database ... 35849 files and directories currently installed.)
    Removing gridengine-common ...
    Purging configuration files for gridengine-common ...
    GET shared/gridenginecell

...and it hangs here as well.

I reached this point once before, and reinstalled the system in order to
start over.  I don't really want to do so again, but will if it will help
debug.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gridengine-common depends on:
ii  adduser            3.110                 add and remove users and groups
ii  bsd-mailx          8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
ii  debconf [debconf-2 1.5.24                Debian configuration management sy
ii  ucf                3.0016                Update Configuration File: preserv

gridengine-common recommends no packages.

gridengine-common suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* shared/gridenginemaster:   sge-head.stanford.edu
* shared/gridenginecell:   stanford.edu
  shared/gridengineconfig:  false