On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:55:19PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 09:58:24AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Trying to upgrade dictionaries-common fails with: > > > > Setting up dictionaries-common (1.23.5) ... > > update-default-wordlist: Question empty but elements installed for class > > "wordlist" > > dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: return code: "0", value: "" > > Choices: , Manual symlink setting > > shared/packages-wordlist: return code: "10" owners/error: > > "shared/packages-wordlist doesn't exist" > > Installed elements: american (American English) > > This is typically related to debconf database corruption.
I've seen this bug before: around a year ago, I wiped /var/cache (or rather, didn't have it on backup), then a number of packages refused to upgrade -- despite failing to handle clearing of /var/cache being a RC bug. However, this would be strange in this case as dictionaries-common has been upgraded a number of times since then. Unless you changed it to require that key, without creating it first, during this upload. > > Please see "/usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common/README.problems", section > > "Debconf database corruption" for recovery info. > > Have you looked at this info? It should help recovering from debconf > database corruption. debconf (developer): <-- UNREGISTER shared/packages-wordlist debconf (developer): --> 10 shared/packages-wordlist doesn't exist dictionaries-common: (re)configuring ... debconf (developer): <-- METAGET shared/packages-ispell owners debconf (developer): --> 10 shared/packages-ispell doesn't exist > Note that dictionaries-common just triggers the error message because it > checks for consistency, but it does not mean that dictionaries-common is > causing the database corruption. > > By the way, which was your old dictionaries-common version? 1.23.4 -> 1.23.5 (daily updated unstable) -- Gnome 3, Windows 8, Slashdot Beta, now Firefox Ribbon^WAustralis. WTF is going on with replacing usable interfaces with tabletized ones? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
