Hi! > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.17.23 > Severity: normal > > I had to test something quickly in an older sid chroot (hence the many > not updated packages) and updating libgcc1 + libc6 failed without > clear reason why. Running dpkg --configure -a configured the 2 > packages just fine. > > I'm unsure what went wrong there. Is dpkg screwing up the order in > which packages get configured or is apt-get? Or what ios going on there?
>> dpkg does what it is told, I'm assuming some problem in apt, or its >> invocation. I've been bitten by this bug during the libc6:amd64|i386 update yesterday. Here is what aptitude has to say: Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: error processing package libc6:amd64 (--configure): package libc6:amd64 2.19-17 cannot be configured because libc6:i386 is at a different version (2.19-15) dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apt: apt depends on libc6 (>= 2.15); however: Package libc6:amd64 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package apt (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libc6:amd64 apt E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Failed to perform requested operation on package. Trying to recover: dpkg: error processing package libc6:amd64 (--configure): package libc6:amd64 2.19-17 cannot be configured because libc6:i386 is at a different version (2.19-15) dpkg: error processing package libc6:i386 (--configure): package libc6:i386 2.19-15 cannot be configured because libc6:amd64 is at a different version (2.19-17) dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apt: apt depends on libc6 (>= 2.15); however: Package libc6:amd64 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package apt (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc-dev-bin: libc-dev-bin depends on libc6 (>> 2.19); however: Package libc6:amd64 is not configured yet. libc-dev-bin depends on libc6 (<< 2.20); however: Package libc6:amd64 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libc-dev-bin (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6-dev:amd64: libc6-dev:amd64 depends on libc6 (= 2.19-17); however: Package libc6:amd64 is not configured yet. libc6-dev:amd64 depends on libc-dev-bin (= 2.19-17); however: Package libc-dev-bin is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libc6-dev:amd64 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libc6-dbg:amd64: libc6-dbg:amd64 depends on libc6 (= 2.19-17); however: Package libc6:amd64 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package libc6-dbg:amd64 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libc6:amd64 libc6:i386 apt libc-dev-bin libc6-dev:amd64 libc6-dbg:amd64 Press Return to continue. Running dpkg directly with 'dpkg -a --configure' fails; apt-get, too (Beeing a fool, I've tried downgrading apt before running apt-get): apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: lib32stdc++6 libc6-x32 locales The following NEW packages will be installed: lib32stdc++6 libc6-x32 The following packages will be upgraded: locales 1 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 42 not upgraded. 6 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/6,801 kB of archives. After this operation, 11.3 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done Reading changelogs... Done Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: error processing package libc6:amd64 (--configure): package libc6:amd64 2.19-17 cannot be configured because libc6:i386 is at a different version (2.19-15) dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apt: apt depends on libc6 (>= 2.15); however: Package libc6:amd64 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package apt (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: libc6:amd64 apt E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Will my system survive a reboot in this state? Any help is appreciated. Toto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
