Control: tag -1 moreinfo unreproducible Hi!
On Wed, 2021-07-07 at 19:00:34 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Package: dpkg > Severity: normal > I've seen the following several times now when upgrading from stretch to > buster > via aptitude: > > Setting up libgail-common:amd64 (2.24.32-3) ... > Setting up xscreensaver (5.42+dfsg1-1) ... > > => at this point /var/log/apt/term.log stops, which I guess it shouldn't... Because the upgrade continued with other package configurations that are not reflected there? > But the following is the actual reason I'm writing: > > dpkg: warning: package not in status nor available database at line 4: > clang-3.8:amd64 > dpkg: warning: package not in status nor available database at line 5: > libclang1-3.8:amd64 […] > dpkg: warning: package not in status nor available database at line 112: > pxz:amd64 > dpkg: warning: package not in status nor available database at line 113: > python3.5-doc:all > dpkg: warning: found unknown packages; this might mean the available database > is outdated, and needs to be updated through a frontend method; > please see the FAQ <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ> > [ Rootkit Hunter version 1.4.6 ] > File updated: searched for 181 files, found 156 > needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) W/o more context, and even then I'm not sure that might help much either, it's hard to tell what went wrong. In theory apt is supposed to update the available file so that dpkg knows about these packages. Given the term.log supposed truncation, and this, are you sure, say the system did not run out of space at some point? Also where some of these "unknown" package really new installs instead of upgrades (for example the pxz above)? > So no idea why these: > dpkg: warning: package not in status nor available database at line > occur. That could happen if for some reason apt (or dpkg) failed to update the available file when apt instructed it to. > So not sure if it's really worth to follow this up, but I thought maybe > it helps you guys by ringing some bell. Hard to tell, TBH. Thanks, Guillem
