Control: reassign -1 systemd Control: retitle -1 systemd: On upgrade several pacakges get stuck when interacting with systemd
Hi! Leaving some context here, the rest is in the bug log. On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 20:44:20 +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > Le 19/10/2015 14:58, Guillem Jover a écrit : > >On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 06:35:49 +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > >>Package: dpkg > >>Version: 1.18.3 > >>Followup-For: Bug #801737 > >>The problem now happens with many packages. Thus dpkg freezes while setting: > >>udev > >>systemd-sysv > >>modemmanager > >>virtualbox-dkms > >>I cannot manipulate (neither remove, nor reinstall, nor configure) pcscd, > >>libgempc430. > >> > >>So there's a really big problem. Unable to track it with -D. Eow could I get > >>more info? How can I clean my deps tree? > >This to me does not seem to be a problem in dpkg itself, but something > >very wrong on the system. From your ps output it seems the installation > >is stuck in the configure script, which would seem to point to something > >else. > > > >Could edit for example /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst, and add a > >«set -x» at the beginning, just after the shebang. Then try running > >«dpkg --configure udev»? > > > >It might be useful to see also where it is stuck in, you can check all > >childs of the configure script with something like «pstree -p» for > >example, or with «pgrep -P <PPID>», with PPID being the pid of the > >configure script. > > > >Optionally you could attach to the process that seems to be stuck with > >«strace -p PID», so see what's happening. > Thanks for your answer. The results of these tests are here: > http://sprunge.us/cCRi > > I preferred testing with modemmanager, as udev created a lot of weird > processes. If I understand all what I read, the problem would be with > systemd, etc. Should I reassign there? Indeed, virtualbox, udev, > modemmanager, could have problems related to systemd handling of services. Doing so now. > Thanks for your help. After it I'll try to reinstall pcscd as dpkg says "so > irrelevant status, you should reinstall before removing", but I'm unable to > reinstall it as apt-get tries to configure udev. You could try perhaps doing: «apt-get download pcscd» and then «dpkg -i pcscd_*.deb», but maybe that's not enough. Thanks, Guillem
