Bug#466027: tzdata: does not update from etch to sid
Marc Haber
Version: 2007k-3
Severity: important
Hi,
# debootstrap --resolve-deps etch foo http://your.mirror.example/debian/
# chroot foo apt-get update
# chroot foo apt-get install debfoster
# chroot foo debfoster -o MaxPriority=required -o UseRecommends=no -f -n apt debfoster
# chroot foo dpkg --purge debfoster
# chroot foo apt-get update
# chroot foo mount -t proc proc /proc
# edit foo/etc/apt/sources.list from etch to sid
# chroot foo apt-get update
# chroot foo apt-get install tzdata
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
debconf debconf-i18n libc6 liblocale-gettext-perl libtext-charwidth-perl
libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl perl-base
Suggested packages:
debconf-doc debconf-utils libgnome2-perl libnet-ldap-perl libqt-perl
libterm-readline-gnu-perl whiptail dialog gnome-utils locales glibc-doc
libc6-i686
Recommended packages:
apt-utils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
debconf debconf-i18n liblocale-gettext-perl libtext-charwidth-perl
libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl
The following packages will be upgraded:
libc6 perl-base tzdata
3 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 61 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/6269kB of archives.
After unpacking 2691kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
liblocale-gettext-perl libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl
libtext-wrapi18n-perl debconf-i18n debconf tzdata libc6 perl-base
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on tzdata
This is incidentally the procedure piuparts uses for upgrading, so
this issue seems to hinder piuparts tests. I do not have enough clue
about tzdata to find out whether this is really a tzdata bug. The
error message is not very conclusive.
Greetings
Marc
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2-zgsrv (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages tzdata depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.19 Debian configuration management sy
tzdata recommends no packages.
-- debconf information excluded
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Bart Martens
I downloaded initrd.gz and vmlinuz from
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/
to boot the installer from hard disk as described here:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.html.en#boot-initrd
The installer works fine, and I chose "Standard System" with tasksel.
After booting the newly installed etch system, I
edited /etc/apt/sources.list to replace "etch" by "testing". Then doing
"apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" led to the same error message
"could not perform immediate configuration (2) on tzdata":
A workaround seems to be:
apt-get install libstdc++6
apt-get dist-upgrade
Aurelien Jarno
thanks
Marc Haber a écrit :
This message comes from apt and not from tzdata. I have no idea why apt
fails here, so I am reassigning this bug to apt.
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