Bug#453902: hplip: Reinforcement for #453902
Package: hplip
Followup-For: Bug #453902
I have encountered this problem for the last couple weeks. Was suprised
to discover that a bug report had only very recently been filed. No
such problem in 32-bit Sid.
Trying to upgrade hplip yields the following:
debian64:~# aptitude install hplip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
linuxprinting.org-ppds
The following packages have been automatically kept back:
hpijs hpijs-ppds
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
hplip-gui
The following NEW packages will be installed:
hplip-gui
The following packages will be upgraded:
hplip hplip-data
2 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 2 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B/7430kB of archives. After unpacking 17.1MB will
be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 131897 files and directories currently
installed.)
Removing linuxprinting.org-ppds ...
(Reading database ... 130342 files and directories currently
installed.)
Preparing to replace hplip 1.6.10-4.2+lenny1 (using
.../hplip_2.7.10-4_amd64.deb) ...
Stopping HP Linux Printing and Imaging System: hpiod hpssd.
Stopping HP Linux Printing and Imaging System: hpiod hpssd.
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/hplip exists during rc.d purge (use
-f to force)
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/hplip_2.7.10-4_amd64.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status
1
Starting HP Linux Printing and Imaging System: hpiod hpssd.
Preparing to replace hplip-data 1.6.10-4.2+lenny1 (using
.../hplip-data_2.7.10-4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement hplip-data ...
Selecting previously deselected package hplip-gui.
Unpacking hplip-gui (from .../hplip-gui_2.7.10-4_all.deb) ...
Replacing files in old package hplip ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/hplip_2.7.10-4_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up hplip-data (2.7.10-4) ...
Setting up hplip-gui (2.7.10-4) ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
debian64:~# 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
Building tag database... Done
The following packages have been automatically kept back:
hpijs hpijs-ppds
The following packages will be upgraded:
hplip
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and
2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/306kB of archives. After unpacking 1950kB
will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
(Reading database ... 130536 files and directories
currently installed.)
Preparing to replace hplip 1.6.10-4.2+lenny1 (using
.../hplip_2.7.10-4_amd64.deb) ...
Stopping HP Linux Printing and Imaging System: hpiod
hpssd.
Stopping HP Linux Printing and Imaging System: hpiod
hpssd.
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/hplip exists during rc.d purge
(use -f to force)
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/hplip_2.7.10-4_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit
status 1
Starting HP Linux Printing and Imaging System: hpiod
hpssd.
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/hplip_2.7.10-4_amd64.deb
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
Building tag database... Done
debian64:~#
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages hplip depends on:
ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups
ii coreutils 5.97-5.6 The GNU core utilities
ii cupsys 1.3.4-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii hplip-data 1.6.10-4.2+lenny1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - da
ii libc6 2.7-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcupsys2 1.3.4-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.2-4 GCC support library
ii libsnmp10 5.3.1-8+lenny1 SNMP (Simple Network Management Pr
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-3 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.2.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-8 userspace USB programming library
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii python 2.4.4-6 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-qt3 3.17.3-3 Qt3 bindings for Python
ii python-support 0.7.5 automated rebuilding support for p
Versions of packages hplip recommends:
ii cupsys-client 1.3.4-2 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii hpijs 2.6.10+1.6.10-4.2+lenny1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - gs
ii hpijs-ppds 2.6.10+1.6.10-4.2+lenny1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - HP
ii linuxprinting.o 20061031-1 linuxprinting.org printer support
ii python-reportla 2.0dfsg-1 ReportLab library to create PDF do
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