Unmet dependencies: puppetmaster 3.7.0-1puppetlabs1

[Taylor Leese]

Hello all,

I noticed this error today which is related to unmet dependencies for Puppet 3.7.0-1puppetlabs1 on Ubuntu Trusty. It's worth noting this was working perfectly as recently as a few days ago and today with no code changes there are dependency problems. I've actually noticed this in the past with 3.6.2 as well and upgraded to 3.7.0 to fix it, but this should not be happening when I'm specifying a explicit Puppet version because I don't want to always have to upgrade to keep things sane. Anybody else experiencing this problem? Or any ideas? Maybe I am doing something wrong.

Error: Could not update: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold --force-yes install puppetmaster-passenger=3.7.0-1puppetlabs1' returned 100: Reading package lists...

Building dependency tree...

Reading state information...

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 puppetmaster-passenger : Depends: puppetmaster-common (= 3.7.0-1puppetlabs1) but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Wrapped exception:

Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold --force-yes install puppetmaster-passenger=3.7.0-1puppetlabs1' returned 100: Reading package lists...

Building dependency tree...

Reading state information...

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 puppetmaster-passenger : Depends: puppetmaster-common (= 3.7.0-1puppetlabs1) but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Error: /Stage[main]/Puppetmaster::Install/Package[puppetmaster-passenger]/ensure: change from purged to 3.7.0-1puppetlabs1 failed: Could not update: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold --force-yes install puppetmaster-passenger=3.7.0-1puppetlabs1' returned 100: Reading package lists...

Building dependency tree...

Reading state information...

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 puppetmaster-passenger : Depends: puppetmaster-common (= 3.7.0-1puppetlabs1) but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Error: Could not update: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold --force-yes install puppetmaster=3.7.0-1puppetlabs1' returned 100: Reading package lists...

Building dependency tree...

Reading state information...

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 puppetmaster : Depends: puppetmaster-common (= 3.7.0-1puppetlabs1) but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Wrapped exception:

Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold --force-yes install puppetmaster=3.7.0-1puppetlabs1' returned 100: Reading package lists...

Building dependency tree...

Reading state information...

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 puppetmaster : Depends: puppetmaster-common (= 3.7.0-1puppetlabs1) but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Error: /Stage[main]/Puppetmaster::Install/Package[puppetmaster]/ensure: change from purged to 3.7.0-1puppetlabs1 failed: Could not update: Execution of '/usr/bin/apt-get -q -y -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confold --force-yes install puppetmaster=3.7.0-1puppetlabs1' returned 100: Reading package lists...

Building dependency tree...

Reading state information...

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 puppetmaster : Depends: puppetmaster-common (= 3.7.0-1puppetlabs1) but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

- Taylor

[Taylor Leese]

I think it's also worth noting that Puppet 3.7.1 was released today. See https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppet/3.7/reference/release_notes.html#puppet-371. This doesn't seem like a coincidence.

- Taylor