[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1077285: Bug#1077285: policykit-1: During upgrade from bullseye to bookworm, installation of policykit-1 failed

[Michael Biebl]

Control: reassign -1  systemd
Control: forcemerge 1076506 -1
Control: affects -1 polkitd

Am 28.07.24 um 00:07 schrieb ci.zephyrus at gmail.com:
> 
> Package: polkitd
> Version: 124-2
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where 
> appropriate ***
> 
>     * What led up to the situation?
> 
>     I tried to upgrade my bullseye installation to bookworm.
> 
>     During the final |apt-get full-upgrade|,
>     the installation of policykit-1 failed.
> 
>     There were about half a dozen other packages that depend on
>     policykit-1 and they ware not configured, either.
> 
>     * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>       ineffective)?
> 
>     Since the other packages had been downloaded and replaced the older
>     packages where appropriate, the system was in limbo.
>     *THIS IS BAD*
> 
>     So I searched to see if somebody else had been bitten by the same bug.
>     Yes, some people have seen the same issue lately.
> https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=156286
> 
>     I followed the following steps mentioned in comment 7 there.
> 
>      adduser --system --group polkitd
>      adduser root polkitd
> 
>      dpkg --configure polkitd
>      dpkg --configure -a
> 
>      All was well after this.
> 
>      I think policykit-1 installation fails to take care of the case
>      when polkitd is not defined, i.e., during the upgrade from bullseye to
>      bookworm.
> 
>     * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
>     During the upgrade from bullseye to bookworm,
>     apt-get full-upgrade did not finish successfully due to the failure
>     to configure policykit-1.
> 
>     * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
>     apt-get full-upgrade should succeed to complete the upgrad from
>     bullseye to bookworm.
> 
> IMPORTANT NOTE:
> I am writing this report on a different lilnux PC where the upgrade took 
> place and so system
> information below included by reportbug is irrelevant.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: trixie/sid
>    APT prefers testing
>    APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 6.9.9-amd64 (SMP w/7 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
> LANGUAGE=en_US:en
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages policykit-1 depends on:
> ii  pkexec   124-3
> ii  polkitd  124-3
> 
> policykit-1 recommends no packages.
> 
> policykit-1 suggests no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages polkitd depends on:
> ii  adduser                         3.137
> ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]  1.14.10-4+b1
> ii  libc6                           2.39-4
> ii  libduktape207                   2.7.0-2+b1
> ii  libexpat1                       2.6.2-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0t64                 2.80.4-1
> ii  libpam-systemd [logind]         256.2-1
> ii  libpam0g                        1.5.3-7
> ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0             124-3
> ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0           124-3
> ii  libsystemd0                     256.2-1
> ii  systemd [systemd-sysusers]      256.2-1
> ii  xml-core                        0.19
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
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