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Bug#951200: base-files: unable to upgrade, conffile error
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Luca Koroll
Feb 12, 2020, 6:50:04 AM2/12/20
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Package: base-files
Version: 9.9+deb9u11
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
after rebooting my system and trying to update my packages an error with the base-files package occured which brought me into the situation that I am unable to install any new packages.
There must be a problem with the conffile that is temporarily created when installing base-files.
apt-clean, dpkg-reconfigure base-files didn't help. The checksum of the packages are correct.
The error line states "new info file "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles" can't be installed: incorrect message
There is no further error code or information.
Thanks for helping.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.11
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.15.18-24-pve (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17+b3
base-files recommends no packages.
base-files suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/issue changed:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to the Proxmox Virtual Environment. Please use your web browser to
configure this server - connect to:
https://192.168.178.51:8006/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- no debconf information
Version: 9.9+deb9u11
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
after rebooting my system and trying to update my packages an error with the base-files package occured which brought me into the situation that I am unable to install any new packages.
There must be a problem with the conffile that is temporarily created when installing base-files.
apt-clean, dpkg-reconfigure base-files didn't help. The checksum of the packages are correct.
The error line states "new info file "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles" can't be installed: incorrect message
There is no further error code or information.
Thanks for helping.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.11
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.15.18-24-pve (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-17+b3
base-files recommends no packages.
base-files suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/issue changed:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to the Proxmox Virtual Environment. Please use your web browser to
configure this server - connect to:
https://192.168.178.51:8006/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- no debconf information
Santiago Vila
Feb 12, 2020, 7:10:03 AM2/12/20
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:31:35AM +0000, Luca Koroll wrote:
> Package: base-files
> Version: 9.9+deb9u11
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> after rebooting my system and trying to update my packages an error with the base-files package occured which brought me into the situation that I am unable to install any new packages.
> There must be a problem with the conffile that is temporarily created when installing base-files.
>
> apt-clean, dpkg-reconfigure base-files didn't help. The checksum of the packages are correct.
>
> The error line states "new info file "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles" can't be installed: incorrect message
> There is no further error code or information.
Seems like a bug in dpkg, not base-files.
> Package: base-files
> Version: 9.9+deb9u11
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> after rebooting my system and trying to update my packages an error with the base-files package occured which brought me into the situation that I am unable to install any new packages.
> There must be a problem with the conffile that is temporarily created when installing base-files.
>
> apt-clean, dpkg-reconfigure base-files didn't help. The checksum of the packages are correct.
>
> The error line states "new info file "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles" can't be installed: incorrect message
> There is no further error code or information.
Is there any improvement if you "rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci" and try again?
Santiago Vila
Feb 12, 2020, 7:20:03 AM2/12/20
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:09:23PM +0000, Luca Koroll wrote:
> Thanks for your fast response. Removing the folder did not help unfortunately. The folder is temporary and is removed after dpkg-installation-process.
>
> Is there a way to safely reinstall base-files without having to reinstall the whole system?
Well, can probably "fake" that the base-files upgrade already happened
by doing this:
Edit /var/lib/dpkg/status, search for base-files and change Version by hand.
Change /etc/debian_version by hand.can probably "fake" that the base-files upgrade already happened by doing this:
Maybe some other thing I can't remember right now.
I'm going to reassign this to dpkg if you don't mind.
Thanks.
> Thanks for your fast response. Removing the folder did not help unfortunately. The folder is temporary and is removed after dpkg-installation-process.
>
> Is there a way to safely reinstall base-files without having to reinstall the whole system?
Well, can probably "fake" that the base-files upgrade already happened
by doing this:
Edit /var/lib/dpkg/status, search for base-files and change Version by hand.
Change /etc/debian_version by hand.can probably "fake" that the base-files upgrade already happened by doing this:
Maybe some other thing I can't remember right now.
I'm going to reassign this to dpkg if you don't mind.
Thanks.
Luca Koroll
Feb 12, 2020, 7:30:03 AM2/12/20
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Thanks for your fast response. Removing the folder did not help unfortunately. The folder is temporary and is removed after dpkg-installation-process.
Is there a way to safely reinstall base-files without having to reinstall the whole system?
> -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
Is there a way to safely reinstall base-files without having to reinstall the whole system?
> Von: Santiago Vila <san...@unex.es>
> Datum: Mi., 12. Feb. 2020, 12:50
> An: Luca Koroll <con...@lucakoroll.de>, 951...@bugs.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: Bug#951200: base-files: unable to upgrade, conffile error
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 11:31:35AM +0000, Luca Koroll wrote:
> > Package: base-files
> > Version: 9.9+deb9u11
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > after rebooting my system and trying to update my packages an error with the base-files package occured which brought me into the situation that I am unable to install any new packages.
> > There must be a problem with the conffile that is temporarily created when installing base-files.
> >
> > apt-clean, dpkg-reconfigure base-files didn't help. The checksum of the packages are correct.
> >
> > The error line states "new info file "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles" can't be installed: incorrect message
> > There is no further error code or information.
>
> > Version: 9.9+deb9u11
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > after rebooting my system and trying to update my packages an error with the base-files package occured which brought me into the situation that I am unable to install any new packages.
> > There must be a problem with the conffile that is temporarily created when installing base-files.
> >
> > apt-clean, dpkg-reconfigure base-files didn't help. The checksum of the packages are correct.
> >
> > The error line states "new info file "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles" can't be installed: incorrect message
> > There is no further error code or information.
>
Santiago Vila
Jul 10, 2023, 7:50:05 AM7/10/23
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reassign 951200 dpkg
thanks
Hello Guillem et al.
I'm reassigning this bug to dpkg because it is a lot more likely
to be a bug in dpkg than a bug in base-files.
Thanks.
El 12/2/20 a las 12:31, Luca Koroll escribió:
thanks
Hello Guillem et al.
I'm reassigning this bug to dpkg because it is a lot more likely
to be a bug in dpkg than a bug in base-files.
Thanks.
El 12/2/20 a las 12:31, Luca Koroll escribió:
> Package: base-files
> Version: 9.9+deb9u11
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> after rebooting my system and trying to update my packages an error with the base-files package occured which brought me into the situation that I am unable to install any new packages.
> There must be a problem with the conffile that is temporarily created when installing base-files.
>
> apt-clean, dpkg-reconfigure base-files didn't help. The checksum of the packages are correct.
>
> The error line states "new info file "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles" can't be installed: incorrect message
> There is no further error code or information.
>
> Thanks for helping.
> [...]
> Version: 9.9+deb9u11
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> after rebooting my system and trying to update my packages an error with the base-files package occured which brought me into the situation that I am unable to install any new packages.
> There must be a problem with the conffile that is temporarily created when installing base-files.
>
> apt-clean, dpkg-reconfigure base-files didn't help. The checksum of the packages are correct.
>
> The error line states "new info file "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles" can't be installed: incorrect message
> There is no further error code or information.
>
> Thanks for helping.
Guillem Jover
Jul 13, 2023, 6:40:05 PM7/13/23
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Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible
Hi!
On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 11:31:35 +0000, Luca Koroll wrote:
> Package: base-files
> Version: 9.9+deb9u11
> Severity: important
matches this message. Can you paste the exact message, even if it is
localized.
The only error messages that are close to that one are either:
"unable to install (supposed) new info file '%.250s'"
"unable to install new info file '%.250s' as '%.250s'"
both are related to a failed rename of the new info file, but that
would not explain either the error message (from errno) which I cannot
find either in glibc.
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/issue changed:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Welcome to the Proxmox Virtual Environment. Please use your web browser to·
> configure this server - connect to:
> https://192.168.178.51:8006/
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I assume this is from the system where the problem was found? Perhaps
there's an issue with Proxmox?
I've marked this moreinfo and unreproducible, because the error
message does not make sense to me given the code history, so if I
don't hear anything in a while, I guess I'll just have to close this
as a non-actionable report.
Thanks,
Guillem
Hi!
On Wed, 2020-02-12 at 11:31:35 +0000, Luca Koroll wrote:
> Package: base-files
> Version: 9.9+deb9u11
> Severity: important
> after rebooting my system and trying to update my packages an error with
> the base-files package occured which brought me into the situation that
> I am unable to install any new packages.
> There must be a problem with the conffile that is temporarily created
> when installing base-files.
> the base-files package occured which brought me into the situation that
> I am unable to install any new packages.
> There must be a problem with the conffile that is temporarily created
> when installing base-files.
> The error line states
> "new info file "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles" can't be installed: incorrect message
Hmm, weird I cannot see an error message in the dpkg history that
> "new info file "/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/conffiles" can't be installed: incorrect message
matches this message. Can you paste the exact message, even if it is
localized.
The only error messages that are close to that one are either:
"unable to install (supposed) new info file '%.250s'"
"unable to install new info file '%.250s' as '%.250s'"
both are related to a failed rename of the new info file, but that
would not explain either the error message (from errno) which I cannot
find either in glibc.
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/issue changed:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Welcome to the Proxmox Virtual Environment. Please use your web browser to·
> configure this server - connect to:
> https://192.168.178.51:8006/
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
there's an issue with Proxmox?
I've marked this moreinfo and unreproducible, because the error
message does not make sense to me given the code history, so if I
don't hear anything in a while, I guess I'll just have to close this
as a non-actionable report.
Thanks,
Guillem
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