On Tue, 15 Mar 2016, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: So the "official" workaround is
rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/kpartx.prerm before upgrading from -6? (That works) Greetings Haegar > If you upgrade from -5 to -7, you shouldn't be hitting this problem. I > thought about handling the breakage, but that would touch files outside > , which I'm not keen on. > > And Unstable is supposed to have breakages. > > > 2016-03-15 13:46:48 upgrade kpartx:amd64 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-5 > 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-7 > 2016-03-15 13:46:48 status half-configured kpartx:amd64 > 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-5 > 2016-03-15 13:46:48 status unpacked kpartx:amd64 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-5 > 2016-03-15 13:46:48 status half-installed kpartx:amd64 > 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-5 > 2016-03-15 13:46:48 status triggers-pending man-db:amd64 2.7.5-1 > 2016-03-15 13:46:48 status half-installed kpartx:amd64 > 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-5 > 2016-03-15 13:46:49 status unpacked kpartx:amd64 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-7 > 2016-03-15 13:46:49 status unpacked kpartx:amd64 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-7 > 2016-03-15 13:46:49 configure kpartx:amd64 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-7 > 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-7 > 2016-03-15 13:46:49 status unpacked kpartx:amd64 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-7 > 2016-03-15 13:46:49 status half-configured kpartx:amd64 > 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-7 > 2016-03-15 13:46:49 status installed kpartx:amd64 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-7 > > On Tue, 2016-03-15 at 17:30 +0100, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > This bug is not fixed yet - maybe just an empty pre-removal script > > will > > help? > > > > Preparing to unpack .../kpartx_0.5.0+git1.656f8865-7_amd64.deb ... > > Failed to stop multipathd.service: Unit multipathd.service not > > loaded. > > dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit > > status 5 > > dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ... > > dpkg: error processing archive > > /var/cache/apt/archives/kpartx_0.5.0+git1.656f8865-7_amd64--unpack): > > there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up > > Failed to get unit file state for multipathd.service: No such file > > or > > directory > > multipathd.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it. > > Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... > > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/kpartx_0.5.0+git1.656f8865-7_amd64.deb > c'ya sven-haegar -- Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Ben F.
