On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 01:54:22PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> 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.
Debconf database corruption might have happened for other reasons, and
I'd expect it to have affected more packages.
By the way, what "/var/cache/dictionaries-common/ispell-default" and
"/var/cache/dictionaries-common" contain in your box?
> Unless you changed it to require that key, without creating it first, during
> this upload.
Only debian/control changes, nothing debconf related.
> > > 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
Did running "/usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl" help? As pointed out in
"README.problems" document, you can also look about affected templates
once run
$ diff -u /var/cache/debconf/config.dat{-old,} | grep ^[+-]Name
$ diff -u /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat{-old,} | grep ^[+-]Name
> > 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)
No related changes at all in that upload, see
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=dict-common/dictionaries-common.git;a=summary
Thanks for the feedback,
--
Agustin
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