Bug#728572: python-apt: string to float conversion exception
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 01:02:25PM +0200, Pauli Nieminen wrote:
> I upgraded to 0.9.12.1 on 16th October (from logs). That means I'm
> reproducing this issue with 0.9.12.1.
Thanks for your bugreport.
This was indeed supposed to be fixed with apt 0.9.12.1, do you have a
example package or any other hints how to reproduce this bug? I.e. is
there anything I can downgrade and let unattended-upgrades run to
trigger the issue?
Thanks,
Michael
> On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 10:09:06AM +0200, Pauli wrote:
> > > Package: python-apt
> > > Version: 2:0.9.1
> > > Severity: normal
> > >
> > > Dear Maintainer,
> > >
> > > I noticed that unattended-upgrade seem to fail randomly with string to
> > > float conversion exception. I made some modifications to
> > > unattended-upgrade to print the exception stack trace which points
> > > python-apt status update parsing code.
> > >
> > > Exception happened during upgrade.
> > > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > > File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 382, in
> > upgrade_in_minimal_steps
> > > res cache.commit(install_progressiprogress)
> > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 498, in
> > commit
> > > res self.install_archives(pm, install_progress)
> > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/cache.py", line 462, in
> > install_archives
> > > res install_progress.run(pm)
> > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/progress/base.py", line
> > 206, in run
> > > res self.wait_child()
> > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/progress/base.py", line
> > 276, in wait_child
> > > self.update_interface()
> > > File "/usr/bin/unattended-upgrade", line 172, in update_interface
> > > apt.progress.base.InstallProgress.update_interface(self)
> > > File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/apt/progress/base.py", line
> > 253, in update_interface
> > > if float(percent) ! self.percent or status_str ! self.status:
> > > ValueError: could not convert string to float: amd64
> >
> > You ran that upgrade with APT 0.9.12, right? This was fixed in 0.9.12.1, so
> > you cannot reproduce it anymore...
> >
> > --
> > Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
> >
> > See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
> >
> > Please do not top-post if possible.
> >
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