Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 03:07:50 -0500, M. Lewis wrote:I'm having an issue with Aptitude that I'm not sure how to correct. I was having an issue with OpenOffice so I decided the easiest way to resolve the problem might be to completely remove it, then re-install it. That is when the problem began. Aptitude hung trying to remove openoffice.org-writer2latex.That indicates a problem with the pre-removal script of this package; aptitude cannot do much about that.I ended up aborting the process and went on about my business. Tonight I needed to install ksensors on the same machine when the OpenOffice problem again reared its ugly head.The openoffice.org-writer2latex package is in a broken state on your system (incomplete removal), therefore aptitude has to try to fix it before it can perform actions on other packages.rattler:~# aptitude install ksensors[...]Removing openoffice.org-writer2latex ...At this point, aptitude will sit here for as long as you are willing to wait. On another terminal, I did 'ps ax'. The relevant portions follow:4726 pts/3 Sl+ 0:03 aptitude install ksensors 4757 pts/6 Ss+ 0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 24 --force-depends --force-remove-essential --remove openoffice.org-writer2latex 4758 pts/6 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove 4759 pts/6 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm remove 4760 pts/6 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg list --shared 4761 pts/6 S+ 0:00 grep Identifier:.*writer2latex 4762 pts/6 S+ 0:00 cut -d: -f2 4780 pts/6 S+ 0:00 /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfd-2 4 4802 pts/6 R+ 0:11 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg.bin list --shared -env:JFW_PLUGIN_DO_NOT_CHECK_ACCESSIBILITY=1 -env:UNO_JAVA_JFW_INSTALL_DATA=$$ORIGIN/../share/config/javasettingsunopkginstall.xml -env:UserInstallation=fi[...] It seems that the pre-removal script gets stuck while trying to determine the full name of the writer2latex extension. You can try this yourself: /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg list --shared | grep latex If that command comes up empty or if it hangs then you might have to comment out every invocation of /usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg in /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm and run "aptitude install -f" to get the broken package off your system.
Hey Florian. Unfortunately this did not work. The command unopkg did in fact hang. I did comment out all of the occurrences of unopkg in /var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm and ran 'aptitude install -f' as you said. Here is the result:
rattler:~# aptitude install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
hddtemp ksensors
The following packages will be REMOVED:
openoffice.org-writer2latex{u}
The following packages will be upgraded:
libicu38 libkrb53 libmp3lame0 libssl0.9.8 openssl
5 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/11.0MB of archives. After unpacking 504kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Reading changelogs... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 182769 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing openoffice.org-writer2latex ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/openoffice.org-writer2latex.prerm: line 7: syntax
error near unexpected token `}'
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-writer2latex (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: openoffice.org-writer2latex E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Thanks, Mike -- Where the system is concerned, you are not allowed to ask "Why?". 17:45:01 up 2 days, 14:37, 2 users, load average: 0.29, 0.27, 0.23 Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org --To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
