Bug#775065: dpkg --configure -a results in "Hangup" after first package

[Michael Biebl]

control: severity -1 important
control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible

Am 11.01.2015 um 21:40 schrieb Chris Carr:
> On 11/01/2015 20:02, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Am 11.01.2015 um 20:54 schrieb Chris Carr:
>>> I still cannot start gdm3:
>>>
>>> chrisc at tony:~$ sudo invoke-rc.d gdm3 start
>>> [....] Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm3[ 1094.663256]
>>> systemd-logind[9907]: Failed to enable subscription: Launch helper
>>> exited with unknown return code 1
>>> [ 1094.669994] systemd-logind[9907]: Failed to fully start up daemon:
>>> Input/output error
>>> Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited
>>> with unknown return code 1
>>>   failed!
>> That somehow sounds like something with your dbus installation is broken.
>> What is the output of
>> $ ls -al /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
> Attached as dbus.txt
>>> invoke-rc.d: initscript gdm3, action "start" failed.
>>> chrisc at tony:~$
>>>
>>> There seem to be two problems there: one is gdm3 not starting, and the
>>> other is logind complaining about not being fully started.
>> Is the dbus package installed? What's the output of "systemctl status
>> dbus.socket dbus.service"?
> Failed to get D-Bus connection: Unknown error -1
>> You might consider attaching the full output of the systemd state via
>> "systemd-analyze dump"
>>
> Failed issue method call: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
> 
> 
> I will try booting using systemd tomorrow and address your other points.
> Thank you again for your time,

Ok, the failing dbus/gdm3 service looks like a completely different
issue from dpkg failing to run "dpkg --configure -a".

Let's stick to the latter issue in this bug report, to not mix up
things. Please also provide steps, how we can reproduce the issue.

I decided to downgrade the severity, due to lack of information which
makes it hard to evaluate the real impact of this issue and it rather
looks like a corner case to me.

Michael
Thank



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