Bug#548858: apt fails to upgrade
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.24
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
ithrandir:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
gnokii gnokii-cli gnokii-common gnome-phone-manager libgdl-1-common
python-eggtrayicon python-gdl python-gksu2 python-gtkhtml2
python-gtkmozembed python-gtkspell xgnokii
The following packages will be upgraded:
ddclient evolution evolution-data-server evolution-plugins fotoxx hostname
libaubio2 libcamel1.2-14 libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk0
libcanberra0 libebackend1.2-0 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedata-book1.2-2
libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-11 libedataserverui1.2-8
libegroupwise1.2-13 libexchange-storage1.2-3 libgdata-google1.2-1
libgdata1.2-1 libjson-glib-1.0-0 libmysqlclient16 libpciaccess0 libperl5.10
libpixman-1-0 libpixman-1-dev libtelepathy-glib0 libxpp2-java libytnef0
mysql-client mysql-client-5.1 mysql-common mysql-server mysql-server-5.1
perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules perl-suid viking x11proto-render-dev
xserver-common xserver-xorg-core ytnef
46 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/49.6MB of archives.
After this operation, 541kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on perl
Same with aptitude and anything else
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::Cache-Limit "40000000";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Etc::preferencesparts "preferences.d";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable-i386
Pin-Priority: 400
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing-i386
Pin-Priority: 400
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable-i386
Pin-Priority: 400
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
#
deb http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib
#deb http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Debian/ sid main non-free contrib
#deb-src http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Linux/Debian/ sid main non-free contrib
# marillat video
deb http://mi.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/debian-multimedia sid main
deb-src http://mi.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/debian-multimedia sid main
# google stuff
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free
# texlive
deb file:/src/TeX/debian/people/TeX/ tex-gyre/
deb-src file:/src/TeX/debian/people/TeX/ tex-gyre/
deb file:/src/TeX/debian/people/TeX/ pool/
deb-src file:/src/TeX/debian/people/TeX/ pool/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
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 apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.9-26 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-4 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none> (no description available)
ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1+b2 terminal-based package manager
ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.4 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.13.3 Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii synaptic 0.62.9 Graphical package manager
-- no debconf information
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