Bug#903224: udev: Fails to upgrade

[Michael Biebl]

Am 08.07.2018 um 17:42 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 08.07.2018 um 08:54 schrieb Sven Joachim:
>> On 2018-07-08 03:05 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>
>>> Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible
>>>
>>> Am 08.07.2018 um 00:26 schrieb Kurt Roeckx:
>>>> Package: udev
>>>> Version: 239-5
>>>> Severity: serious
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> When upgrading udev, it failed to upgrade, because udev didn't
>>>> want to start. I think there might be some ordering problem.
>>
>> In the logs it can be seen that udev is configured before systemd, and
>> that apparently hits the same problem as #902185.
> 
> Right, this appears to be the same udev failure.
> 
>>> Unfortunately I can't reproduce your problem. I've just test-upgraded a
>>> buster VM from 238-5 to 239-5 without a problem.
>>> Can you provide instructions how to reproduce the problem?
>>
>> The following steps might reproduce it:
>>
>> - Downgrade the *systemd* and *udev* packages to 238-5.
>>
>> - Unpack the 239-5 packages with dpkg --unpack.
>>
>> - Run "dpkg --configure libudev1 udev".
> 
> Apparently the bumped Breaks added for #902185 doesn't sufficiently
> convince apt to upgrade the packages in the correct order.
> What we see is that the new systemd has been unpacked, but not
> configured yet (which will re-exec systemd in postinst) when udev's
> postinst is run.
> 
> Any ideas how we can convince apt to upgrade the packages in the correct
> order, ie. make sure that udev's postinst is run after systemd's
> postinst without adding a versioned systemd Depends to udev?


Bringing David and Julian into the loop here. Maybe they have a clever idea.

It's interesting to note, that apt does upgrade the packages in a proper
order for me, but doesn't for others.

Regards,
Michael

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