Package: dpkg Version: 1.16.9 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss
Dear Maintainer, before and after the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy I checked my system with debsums. After the upgrade I found several modified files. I tried to fix the changed files by reinstalling the associated packages. But when I reinstall one package to fix the changed files of that package unrelated files from a different package get modified which weren't modified before. The behaviour is not always consistent. Sometimes files of a different package get removed, sometimes they get changed (it looks like they get overwritten by files from the package I install). Sometimes even the reinstallation of the second package which had been broken by the installation of the first package breaks the first package again, creating an error loop. I have seen this behaviour with the same files and packages on more than one system and the systems were running without problems on squeeze before so that I think I can exclude hardware issues. The bug happens with more than one package and I don't see anything which is overwriting files from a different package in these packages. That's why I file this bug against dpkg. But I'm not an expert for debian packages, so be free to reassign the bug to any other package. I also do not know what the appropriate severity for this bug should be. But when the package system corrupts installed files on the system I think that's a release critical bug, hence severity grave. As my description is probably hard to understand I have attached a logfile where I have tried to track the installation problems down to a minimum of commands. There's also a second logfile attached from another upgrade where I have tried to fix the problems by reinstalling the packages with aptitude first. I don't know if this bug is related to bug #687611 as I also had a modified file debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg on all the systems which I have upgraded to wheezy so far. This file has been fixed on all systems by reinstalling the package debian-archive-keyring without any side effects on other packages though. Regards Uwe -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- grappa:~# debsums --changed /usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/README /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/TODO /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.gz /var/lib/xine/xine.desktop grappa:~# apt-cache policy e2fsprogs e2fsprogs: Installed: 1.42.5-1 Candidate: 1.42.5-1 Version table: *** 1.42.5-1 0 750 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages 650 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status grappa:~# dpkg -l e2fsprogs Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii e2fsprogs 1.42.5-1 i386 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilit grappa:~# md5sum /usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright 726570c997e520841dbf8f7611b173ae /usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright grappa:~# grep copyright /var/lib/dpkg/info/e2fsprogs.md5sums 51a47eee51e75de66777fc781af2f063 usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright grappa:~# dpkg-deb -R /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.42.5-1_i386.deb /tmp/e2fsprogs grappa:~# grep copyright /tmp/e2fsprogs/DEBIAN/md5sums 51a47eee51e75de66777fc781af2f063 usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright grappa:~# ll /usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright /tmp/e2fsprogs/usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3586 2012-07-06 15:37 /tmp/e2fsprogs/usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 995 2012-07-06 15:37 /usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright grappa:~# dpkg -r --force-remove-essential e2fsprogs dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: This is an essential package - it should not be removed. (Reading database ... 568582 files and directories currently installed.) Removing e2fsprogs ... Processing triggers for man-db ... grappa:~# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.42.5-1_i386.deb Selecting previously unselected package e2fsprogs. (Reading database ... 568522 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking e2fsprogs (from .../e2fsprogs_1.42.5-1_i386.deb) ... Setting up e2fsprogs (1.42.5-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... grappa:~# debsums --changed /usr/share/doc/e2fsck-static/copyright /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/README /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/TODO /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.gz /var/lib/xine/xine.desktop grappa:~# apt-cache policy e2fsck-static e2fsck-static: Installed: 1.42.5-1 Candidate: 1.42.5-1 Version table: *** 1.42.5-1 0 750 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages 650 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status grappa:~# dpkg -l e2fsck-static Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii e2fsck-static 1.42.5-1 i386 statically-linked version of the grappa:~# md5sum /usr/share/doc/e2fsck-static/copyright 51a47eee51e75de66777fc781af2f063 /usr/share/doc/e2fsck-static/copyright grappa:~# grep copyright /var/lib/dpkg/info/e2fsck-static.md5sums 726570c997e520841dbf8f7611b173ae usr/share/doc/e2fsck-static/copyright grappa:~# dpkg-deb -R /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsck-static_1.42.5-1_i386.deb /tmp/e2fsck-static grappa:~# md5sum /tmp/e2fsck-static/usr/share/doc/e2fsck-static/copyright 726570c997e520841dbf8f7611b173ae /tmp/e2fsck-static/usr/share/doc/e2fsck-static/copyright grappa:~# grep copyright /tmp/e2fsck-static/DEBIAN/md5sums 726570c997e520841dbf8f7611b173ae usr/share/doc/e2fsck-static/copyright grappa:~# ll /usr/share/doc/e2fsck-static/copyright /tmp/e2fsck-static/usr/share/doc/e2fsck-static/copyright -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 995 2012-07-06 15:37 /tmp/e2fsck-static/usr/share/doc/e2fsck-static/copyright -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3586 2012-07-06 15:37 /usr/share/doc/e2fsck-static/copyright grappa:~# dpkg -r e2fsck-static (Reading database ... 568582 files and directories currently installed.) Removing e2fsck-static ... Processing triggers for man-db ... grappa:~# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsck-static_1.42.5-1_i386.deb Selecting previously unselected package e2fsck-static. (Reading database ... 568587 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking e2fsck-static (from .../e2fsck-static_1.42.5-1_i386.deb) ... Setting up e2fsck-static (1.42.5-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... grappa:~# debsums --changed debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/changelog.Debian.gz (from e2fsprogs package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright (from e2fsprogs package) /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/README /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/TODO /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.gz /var/lib/xine/xine.desktop grappa:~# dpkg -r --force-remove-essential e2fsprogs dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled: This is an essential package - it should not be removed. (Reading database ... 568582 files and directories currently installed.) Removing e2fsprogs ... Processing triggers for man-db ... grappa:~# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/e2fsprogs_1.42.5-1_i386.deb Selecting previously unselected package e2fsprogs. (Reading database ... 568522 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking e2fsprogs (from .../e2fsprogs_1.42.5-1_i386.deb) ... Setting up e2fsprogs (1.42.5-1) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... grappa:~# debsums --changed /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/README /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/TODO /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.gz /var/lib/xine/xine.desktop grappa:~# md5sum /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/README /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/TODO /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.gz 69e1797159c3554abdf564536ee2e0cc /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/README 1c51320be5812f33e393f1d97cff0c1b /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/TODO 51534d77f8adf2588db0101b0abe4835 /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.Debian.gz d8cfd0f5a5bb279669bb0033a508677f /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.gz grappa:~# grep usr/share/doc /var/lib/dpkg/info/libtiff-tools.md5sums 70c042602c0c4a02e7f57c60e64182fd usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/README 97212a564c40666f4686942374cc3b9d usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/TODO e92a8f99ac326b5ce23231fa83907fd5 usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.Debian.gz 643eeb59d04f0931d3ea46ce47b14e35 usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.gz 695ae31c6ddc61ea38050467e1214369 usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/copyright grappa:~# apt-cache policy libtiff-tools libtiff-tools: Installed: 4.0.2-5 Candidate: 4.0.2-5 Version table: *** 4.0.2-5 0 750 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages 650 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status grappa:~# dpkg -l libtiff-tools Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii libtiff-tools 4.0.2-5 i386 TIFF manipulation and conversion grappa:~# dpkg -r libtiff-tools (Reading database ... 568582 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libtiff-tools ... Processing triggers for man-db ... grappa:~# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff-tools_4.0.2-5_i386.deb Selecting previously unselected package libtiff-tools. (Reading database ... 568537 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libtiff-tools (from .../libtiff-tools_4.0.2-5_i386.deb) ... Setting up libtiff-tools (4.0.2-5) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... grappa:~# debsums --changed debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/README (from libtiff4:i386 package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/TODO (from libtiff4:i386 package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.Debian.gz (from libtiff4:i386 package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.gz (from libtiff4:i386 package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/copyright (from libtiff4:i386 package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiffxx0c2/README (from libtiffxx0c2:i386 package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiffxx0c2/TODO (from libtiffxx0c2:i386 package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiffxx0c2/changelog.Debian.gz (from libtiffxx0c2:i386 package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiffxx0c2/changelog.gz (from libtiffxx0c2:i386 package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiffxx0c2/copyright (from libtiffxx0c2:i386 package) /var/lib/xine/xine.desktop grappa:~# apt-cache policy libtiff4 libtiff4: Installed: 3.9.6-10 Candidate: 3.9.6-10 Version table: *** 3.9.6-10 0 750 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages 650 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status grappa:~# dpkg -l libtiff4 Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii libtiff4:i386 3.9.6-10 i386 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libr grappa:~# dpkg -r libtiff4 dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libtiff4:i386: mtpaint depends on libtiff4 (>= 3.9.5-2). libcupsimage2:i386 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). libopenscenegraph80 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~); however: Package libtiff4:i386 is to be removed. libpoppler19:i386 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). netpbm depends on libtiff4 (>= 3.9.5-2). enblend depends on libtiff4 (>= 3.9.5-2). libtk-img depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). rawtherapee depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). xbmc-bin depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~); however: Package libtiff4:i386 is to be removed. libafterimage0 depends on libtiff4 (>= 3.9.5-2). djvulibre-bin depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). ufraw depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). imagemagick depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). hugin-tools depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). luminance-hdr depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). gthumb depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). links2 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). ufraw-batch depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). libgxps2:i38 dpkg: error processing libtiff4:i386 (--remove): dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: libtiff4:i386 grappa:~# dpkg -r --force-depends libtiff4 dpkg: libtiff4:i386: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested: mtpaint depends on libtiff4 (>= 3.9.5-2). libcupsimage2:i386 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). libopenscenegraph80 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~); however: Package libtiff4:i386 is to be removed. libpoppler19:i386 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). netpbm depends on libtiff4 (>= 3.9.5-2). enblend depends on libtiff4 (>= 3.9.5-2). libtk-img depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). rawtherapee depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). xbmc-bin depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~); however: Package libtiff4:i386 is to be removed. libafterimage0 depends on libtiff4 (>= 3.9.5-2). djvulibre-bin depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). ufraw depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). imagemagick depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). hugin-tools depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). luminance-hdr depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). gthumb depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). links2 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). ufraw-batch depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9. (Reading database ... 568582 files and directories currently installed.) Removing libtiff4:i386 ... grappa:~# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libtiff4_3.9.6-10_i386.deb Selecting previously unselected package libtiff4:i386. (Reading database ... 568582 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libtiff4:i386 (from .../libtiff4_3.9.6-10_i386.deb) ... 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Preparing to replace e2fsck-static 1.42.5-1 (using .../e2fsck-static_1.42.5-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement e2fsck-static ... Preparing to replace libtiff-tools 4.0.2-5 (using .../libtiff-tools_4.0.2-5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libtiff-tools ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up e2fsck-static (1.42.5-1) ... Setting up libtiff-tools (4.0.2-5) ... nx:/# nice -19 ionice -c3 debsums --changed /usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/README /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/TODO /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.Debian.gz /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.gz /var/lib/xine/xine.desktop nx:/# aptitude reinstall e2fsprogs libtiff4 The following packages will be REINSTALLED: e2fsprogs libtiff4 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/1,182 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] (Reading database ... 187787 files and directories currently installed.) 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Processing triggers for man-db ... nx:/# nice -19 ionice -c3 debsums --changed /usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/README (from libtiff4:i386 package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/TODO (from libtiff4:i386 package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.Debian.gz (from libtiff4:i386 package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/changelog.gz (from libtiff4:i386 package) debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/libtiff4/copyright (from libtiff4:i386 package) /var/lib/xine/xine.desktop nx:/# dpkg -r --force-depends libtiff4 dpkg: libtiff4:i386: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested: libcupsimage2:i386 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). libpoppler19:i386 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). netpbm depends on libtiff4 (>= 3.9.5-2). djvulibre-bin depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). imagemagick depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). gthumb depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). gimp-ufraw depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). ufraw-batch depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). libimlib2 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). djview4 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). libgs9 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). xloadimage depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). libmagick++5:i386 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). libcupsfilters1:i386 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). libsdl-image1.2:i386 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). libmagickwand5:i386 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). libgraphicsmagick3 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). libmagickcore5-extra:i386 depends on libtiff4 (>> 3.9.5-3~). libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 depends on libti (Reading database ... 187785 files and directories currently installed.) 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Processing triggers for man-db ... nx:/# nice -19 ionice -c3 debsums --changed /var/lib/xine/xine.desktop -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.6-4 ii libc6 2.13-37 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-5 ii tar 1.26+dfsg-0.1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.9.7.7 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org