[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#757952: Bug#757952: Bug#757952: libvirt-daemon-system: upgrade from 1.2.4-3 to 1.2.7-6 fails- the old daemon is still running

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 09:35:21PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 01:21:35PM -0400, Christian Weeks wrote:
> > Package: libvirt-daemon-system
> > Version: 1.2.7-6
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > I just ran a dist-upgrade to uptake the latest sid updates. libvirt appears
> > to have upgraded from 1.2.4-3 to 1.2.7-6, and is failing during upgrade.
> > 
> > # dpkg --configure --pending
> > Setting up libvirt-daemon-system (1.2.7-6) ...
> 
> Do you have the output of the original update available? It's supposed
> to get stopped in the preinst. See
> 
>   /var/lib/dpkg/info/libvirt-daemon-system.preinst
> 
> Maybe the new libvirt-bin got already unpacked and therefore the
> service file removed? The output of /var/log/dpkg.log should tell us.
> 
> Laurent, maybe we even need to ship a libvirt-bin.service in the libvirt-bin
> package to allow for the upgrade to work?

Answering myself: A botter solution is to also stop libvirt-bin in
libvirt-bin's preinst so we're independent of the unpack order. The
dpkg.log of the update would still be helpful though to be sure that's
the cause of the fallure.
Cheers
 -- Guido