Bug#18850: marked as done (dpkg-mountable: unitialized value error)
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From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
Subject: dpkg-mountable: unitialized value error
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Package: dpkg-mountable
Version: 0.6
This is the same old "uncaught exception" bug, but now it sports an error
about use of an uninitialized value. I will send the logs to you by private
email.
Install from a mountable filesystem
Log in /var/log/dpkg-mountable
Constructing list of packages to install:
/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/mountable/updated-packages /var/lib/dpkg/status
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mountable/available
Reading current status ...
Processing available packages file /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mountable/available
...
Will install package battleball version 2.0-1 (MD5 checksum OK)
Will upgrade mutt-i from 0.89.1i-2 to 0.89.1i-4 (MD5 checksum OK)
Will upgrade pgp-i from 2.6.3a-2.1 to 2.6.3a-2.2 (MD5 checksum OK)
Unpacking requested files:
(Reading database ... 49352 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking battleball (from .../games/battleball_2.0-1.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/mirror/debian/dists/unstable/non-free/binary-i386/games/battleball_2.0-1.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/menu/menu', which is also in package menu
Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background)
Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock)
Preparing to replace mutt-i 0.89.1i-2 (using .../mutt-i_0.89.1i-4.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mutt-i ...
Preparing to replace pgp-i 2.6.3a-2.1 (using .../pgp-i_2.6.3a-2.2.deb) ...
Checking available versions of pgp, updating links in /etc/alternatives ...
(You may modify the symlinks there yourself if desired - see `man ln'.)
Discarding obsolete slave link pgp-doc (/usr/doc/pgp).
Discarding obsolete slave link pgp.1.gz (/usr/man/man1/pgp.1.gz).
Last package providing pgp (/usr/bin/pgp) removed, deleting it.
Unpacking replacement pgp-i ...
Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/dpkg//methods/mountable/install line
73 (#1)
(W) An undefined value was used as if it were already defined. It was
interpreted as a "" or a 0, but maybe it was a mistake. To suppress
this
warning assign an initial value to your variables.
ERROR: dpkg-mountable has detected an error in a package
which was not installed during the current run. This almost
certainly means that dpkg exited with an error code, but failed
to give a summary of the problems it encountered. Please check
the log file /var/log/dpkg-mountable to confirm this.
If this is case but you cannot tell why dpkg failed to produce
this list, please do not file a bug, but send the logfile
(including logs for both this run and the preceding one) to the
maintainer, Andy Mortimer <andy.mortimer@poboxes.com>. If you
work out why it happened, I would very much like to know!
Uncaught exception from user code:
Aborting.
main::errinnotinstalled() called at
/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/mountable/install line 339
main::unpackdebs() called at
/usr/lib/dpkg//methods/mountable/install line 349
installation script returned error exit status 29.
Press RETURN to continue.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0 (unstable)
Kernel Version: Linux kite 2.1.65 #1 Tue Nov 18 16:14:44 EST 1997 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages dpkg-mountable depends on:
libc6 Version: 2.0.7pre1-2
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Subject: dpkg-mountable removed from Debian unstable
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dpkg-mountable has been removed from Debian unstable and won't be
released with the next official release of Debian, codenamed "woody".
The original maintainer writes:
| * I can no longer test new versions of this package, as I'm using
| apt-zip rather than my not-free dialup access. I wrote it when I
| was accessing the University's NFS archive mirror!
|
| * It's slightly buggy, and badly out-of-date policy-wise.
|
| * Apt now provides (AFAIK) all the features provided by
| dpkg-mountable, and some (such as package ordering) that it never
| got around to getting.
Please switch to apt.
If you have questions about this, please contact me.
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Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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