Bug#772443: Package: upgrade-reports

Package: upgrade-reports
Version: N/A
Severity: none

My previous release is: wheezy
I am upgrading to: jessie
Archive date: <Timestamp, available as project/trace/ftp-master.debian.org
on your mirror or .disk/info on your CD/DVD set>
Upgrade date: 4:20 AM Saturday, December 6, 2014 Standard Time +0000 UTC
uname -a before upgrade: Linux debian 3.2.0-4-486 #1 Debian 3.2.51-1 i686 GNU/Linux
uname -a after upgrade: Linux debian 3.16.0-4-586 #1 Debian 3.16.7-2 (2014-11-06) i686 GNU/Linux
Method: apt-get dist-upgrade; edit /etc/apt/sources.list; apt-get dist-upgrade; apt-get -f dist-upgrade

Contents of /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free
#deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
##deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main

deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
#deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
##deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main

- Were there any non-Debian packages installed before the upgrade? If
so, what were they?

- Was the system pre-update a pure sarge system? If not, which packages
were not from sarge? no

- Did any packages fail to upgrade? No; however, apt-get -f dist-upgrade was required after apt-get dist-upgrade failed. See below

- Were there any problems with the system after upgrading?

dpkg: cycle found while processing triggers:
chain of packages whose triggers are or may be responsible:
man-db -> man-db
packages' pending triggers which are or may be unresolvable:
man-db: /usr/share/man
dpkg: error processing package man-db (--configure):
triggers looping, abandoned
Setting up libreadline6:i386 (6.3-8+b1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-13) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
man-db
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

apt-get -f dist-upgrade # cleared the above.

ERROR: dictionaries-common is broken - called emacs-package-remove as a new-style add-on, but has no compat file.
Leaving 'diversion of /usr/share/dict/words to /usr/share/dict/words.pre-dictionaries-common by dictionaries-common'

Further Comments/Problems:

This upgrade was done over ssh. The final re-boot killed the sshd and forced me to attach monitor and keyboard.
The boot sequence dropped to root password maintenance mode as non-root user failed. From remote terminal ping and apache worked. From attached console: "ps aux | grep sshd: showed it was not running. It was not possible to login as a non-root user. "update-rc.d ssh remove" and a reboot seemed to restore non-root user login and sshd. However, "update-rc.d ssh defaults" did not reproduce the symptoms-- ssh and non-root login still worked. In other words, I am not able to reproduce the symptoms. I have a fully working upgrade to jessie as far as I can tell. I regret that I did not start a 3rd typescript at the root maintenance console. The output of "journal -xb (attached) does not seem to contain the errors that I saw on the console.

Please attach the output of "COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l" (or "env COLUMNS ...",
depending on your shell) from before and after the upgrade so that we
know what packages were installed on your system.

Attachments: upgrade.tgz
Contents:
upgrade/upgrade-wheezy_to_jessie_step.script 1st typescript apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only
upgrade/upgrade-wheezy_to_jessie_step.time
upgrade/upgrade-wheezy_to_jessie_step2.script 2nd typescript apt-get dist-upgrade; apt-get -f dist-upgrade
upgrade/upgrade-wheezy_to_jessie_step2.time
upgrade/journalctl.txt console "journal -xb > journalctl.txt"
upgrade/dpkg.wheezy - "COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l"
upgrade/dpkg.jessie - "COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l"