Bug#188161: apt: same error on dist-upgrade

[Joerg Wendland <joergland@debian.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Followup-For: Bug #188161

Hi apt-maintainers,

I just did an 'apt-get -uf dist-upgrade' and that's what apt is telling me:

dozer:~# apt-get -uf dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libpng12-0-dev libpng3-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  foomatic-db-engine foomatic-db-hpijs foomatic-filters gcc-3.3-base
hpijs
  initscripts libpng10-0 sysv-rc
The following packages have been kept back
  gabber libgd1 libopenh323-1.11.7 php4 php4-cgi php4-curl php4-dev
  php4-domxml php4-imap php4-ldap php4-mcal php4-mhash php4-mysql
php4-odbc
  php4-pear php4-recode php4-snmp php4-xslt xfonts-artwiz
The following packages will be upgraded
  adduser alsa-base alsa-source autoconf base-config base-passwd
cdda2wav
  cdrecord coreutils cpp-3.2 cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cvs debconf
  debconf-utils debootstrap docbook-utils e2fsprogs eroaster fileutils
  fontconfig foomatic-bin foomatic-db g++-3.2 galeon gcc-3.0-base
gcc-3.2
  gcc-3.2-base gcc-3.2-doc gimp1.3 gimp1.3-nonfree glibc-doc gnome-gv
  gnome-vfs-extfs grep groff groff-base gs gzip java-common
kernel-package
  ldap-utils libapache-mod-ssl libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-dev libblkid1 libc6
  libc6-dev libcupsimage2 libcupsys2 libfontconfig1 libfontconfig1-dev
  libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libfribidi0 libg2c0 libgail-common
libgail-dev
  libgail17 libgcc1 libgimp1.3 libgnome-vfs-common libgnome-vfs0
libgnutls5
  libgnutls5-dev libgwrapguile1 libldap2 libldap2-dev libmetacity-dev
  libmetacity0 libpng12-0 libpng2 libpng3 librpm4 libssl-dev libssl0.9.6
  libssl0.9.7 libstdc++3 libstdc++5 libstdc++5-dev libstlport4.5c102
  libwxgtk2.4 libwxgtk2.4-python libxine1 libxml-parser-perl libxml2
  libxml2-dev libxosd2 lintian locales menu metacity mime-support
mkisofs
  muttprint nano net-tools openoffice.org openoffice.org-bin
  openoffice.org-l10n-en openssl powermgmt-base python2.2-optik
realplayer
  rhythmbox rpm samba-common setserial shellutils slang1 slapd smbclient
smbfs
  sudo sysvinit textutils ucf xfonts-nexus xine-ui
120 packages upgraded, 8 newly installed, 2 to remove and 19  not
upgraded.
Need to get 125MB of archives. After unpacking 1630kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

[...]

Fetched 125MB in 9m57s (210kB/s)
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on
sysvinit
dozer:~#

/etc/apt/apt.conf:
APT {
        Cache-Limit 16777216;
};

dozer:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/*
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs { "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne
10"; };
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
// Pre-configure all packages with debconf before they are installed.
// If you don't like it, comment it out.
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";};
DPkg {
        Post-Invoke {"test -f /var/run/zope.restart && invoke-rc.d zope
restart
; rm -f /var/run/zope.restart";};
}

Regards, Joerg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux dozer 2.4.20-dozer.1 #1 Wed Dec 4 17:41:28 CET 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.1-16    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-17 The GNU stdc++ library

-- no debconf information