Bug#726701: general: apt-get install bootchart pybootchartgui command marking important packages for removal
Package: general
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
- Fresh install of debian 7 netinst. Issue apt-get install command in
root terminal which works as expected with this output.
-- terminal output:
apt-get install bootchart pybootchartgui
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
hp-ppd hyphen-en-us libfs6 x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-xfs-utils xinit
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
acct bootchart-view libcommons-cli-java libcommons-lang-java makedev
Suggested packages:
gqview librsvg2-bin gimp-svg libcommons-lang-java-doc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
alsa-base bluez brasero console-setup console-setup-linux cryptsetup-bin
cups dmsetup e2fsprogs eject gdm3 gnome gnome-applets gnome-bluetooth
gnome-core gnome-disk-utility gnome-power-manager gnome-screensaver
gnome-session gnome-session-bin gnome-session-fallback gnome-shell
gnome-shell-extensions gnome-sushi gnome-user-share grub-common grub-pc
grub-pc-bin grub2-common gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-daemons hamster-applet
hplip iceweasel ifupdown initramfs-tools initscripts keyboard-configuration
libbonoboui2-0 libcanberra-pulse libcryptsetup4 libdevmapper-event1.02.1
libdevmapper1.02.1 libgdu0 libgnome2-0 libgnomeui-0 liblvm2app2.2
libparted0debian1 linux-base linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 linux-image-amd64
media-player-info nautilus nautilus-sendto network-manager
network-manager-gnome nfs-common ppp printer-driver-gutenprint
printer-driver-hpcups printer-driver-postscript-hp printer-driver-splix
procps pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-x11 python-gnome2 rhythmbox
rhythmbox-plugin-cdrecorder rhythmbox-plugins rpcbind rsyslog sane-utils
simple-scan sysvinit task-desktop task-gnome-desktop task-print-server
tracker-miner-fs udev udisks upower util-linux util-linux-locales
virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 wpasupplicant xorg
xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all
xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-apm
xserver-xorg-video-ark xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-i128
xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-mga
xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
xserver-xorg-video-openchrome xserver-xorg-video-r128
xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-rendition xserver-xorg-video-s3
xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion xserver-xorg-video-sis
xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx xserver-xorg-video-trident
xserver-xorg-video-tseng xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware
xserver-xorg-video-voodoo
The following NEW packages will be installed:
acct bootchart bootchart-view libcommons-cli-java libcommons-lang-java
makedev pybootchartgui
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
e2fsprogs util-linux (due to e2fsprogs) sysvinit initscripts (due to
sysvinit)
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 125 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 732 kB of archives.
After this operation, 241 MB disk space will be freed.
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* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
- Within the terminal, the only effective method was to abort the
installation.
- Installing using synaptic package manager did not cause this issue
* What was the outcome of this action?
- If proceeding with the install, it renders the system unbootable
* What outcome did you expect instead?
- bootchart and pybootchartgui installed to determine any boot process
bottlenecks.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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