Debian: Broken packages, bug

Tue Nov 1 18:12:43 UTC 2011

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Thomas Milne
<thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 01:11:28PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Lennart Sorensen
>>> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 08:53:51AM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
>>> >> Yeah, but this is the line that's important:
>>> >>
>>> >>  #646325 - gstreamer0.10-gconf needs to replace gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
>>> >
>>> > Well that bug will certainly cause a problem for apt/dpkg, but not
>>> > a problem for the actual program once installed.
>>> >
>>> > The suggestion of removing the gstreamer packages and installing them
>>> > again would almost certainly get around this bug.
>>> >
>>> > If possible, remove 'gstreamer0.10-plugins-good', then run 'apt-get -f
>>> > install' again, and let it install the package (even though there is a bug
>>> > report), then you should be able to install 'gstreamer0.10-plugins-good'.
>>> > Unfortunately removing 'gstreamer0.10-plugins-good' will take out a
>>> > large chunk of gnome among other things.
>>> >
>>> > Probably the simplest solution is to download the new version of
>>> > gstreamer0.10-plugins-good and installing it, then running apt-get to
>>> > fix the rest.
>>> >
>>> > So something like:
>>> > wget http://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gst-plugins-good0.10/gstreamer0.10-plugins-good_0.10.30-1_amd64.deb (or i386 if that is what you are running)
>>> > dpkg -i gstreamer0.10-plugins-good_0.10.30-1_amd64.deb
>>> > apt-get -f install
>>> >
>>> > Basicly the new version (0.10.30 rather than 0.10.24) no longer has
>>> > the conflicting file that is preventing gstreamer0.10-gconf 0.10.30
>>> > from installing.
>>>
>>> Now I'm getting this:
>>>
>>> node1:/home/joehill# dpkg -i gstreamer0.10-plugins-good_0.10.30-1_i386.deb
>>> dpkg: considering removing gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad in favour of
>>> gstreamer0.10-plugins-good ...
>>> dpkg: no, cannot proceed with removal of gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
>>> (--auto-deconfigure will help):
>>>  libcheese1 depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
>>>   gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad is to be removed.
>>> dpkg: regarding gstreamer0.10-plugins-good_0.10.30-1_i386.deb
>>> containing gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:
>>>  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good conflicts with gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
>>> (<< 0.10.21.2)
>>>   gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad (version 0.10.19-2.1) is present and installed.
>>> dpkg: error processing gstreamer0.10-plugins-good_0.10.30-1_i386.deb
>>> (--install):
>>>  conflicting packages - not installing gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good_0.10.30-1_i386.deb
>>>
>>> So I tried installing the newer version of plugins-bad:
>>>
>>> node1:/home/joehill# dpkg -i gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb
>>> (Reading database ... 315313 files and directories currently installed.)
>>> Preparing to replace gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.19-2.1 (using
>>> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad ...
>>> dpkg: error processing gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb (--install):
>>>  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstxvid.so', which is
>>> also in package gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad 0.10.22-0.0
>>> dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb
>>>
>>> So then I tried the suggested --auto-deconfigure:
>>>
>>> node1:/home/joehill# dpkg -i --auto-deconfigure
>>> gstreamer0.10-plugins-good_0.10.30-1_i386.deb
>>> dpkg: considering removing gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad in favour of
>>> gstreamer0.10-plugins-good ...
>>> dpkg: yes, will remove gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad in favour of
>>> gstreamer0.10-plugins-good.
>>> (Reading database ... 315313 files and directories currently installed.)
>>> Preparing to replace gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.24-1 (using
>>> gstreamer0.10-plugins-good_0.10.30-1_i386.deb) ...
>>> De-configuring gnome-video-effects, to allow removal of
>>> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad ...
>>> De-configuring libgstfarsight0.10-0, to allow removal of
>>> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad ...
>>> De-configuring totem-xine, to allow removal of gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad ...
>>> De-configuring libcheese1, to allow removal of gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad ...
>>> Unpacking replacement gstreamer0.10-plugins-good ...
>>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:
>>>  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good depends on libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
>>> (>= 0.10.33); however:
>>>   Version of libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 on system is 0.10.32-2.
>>> dpkg: error processing gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (--install):
>>>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libcheese1:
>>>  libcheese1 depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (>= 0.10.23); however:
>>>   Package gstreamer0.10-plugins-good is not configured yet.
>>>  libcheese1 depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad; however:
>>>   Package gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad is not installed.
>>> dpkg: error processing libcheese1 (--install):
>>>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of totem-xine:
>>>  totem-xine depends on totem (>= 2.27.1); however:
>>>   Package totem is not configured yet.
>>>  totem-xine depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad; however:
>>>   Package gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad is not installed.
>>> dpkg: error processing totem-xine (--install):
>>>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgstfarsight0.10-0:
>>>  libgstfarsight0.10-0 depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (>=
>>> 0.10.8); however:
>>>   Package gstreamer0.10-plugins-good is not configured yet.
>>>  libgstfarsight0.10-0 depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad (>=
>>> 0.10.17); however:
>>>   Package gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad is not installed.
>>> dpkg: error processing libgstfarsight0.10-0 (--install):
>>>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>>> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-video-effects:
>>>  gnome-video-effects depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-good; however:
>>>   Package gstreamer0.10-plugins-good is not configured yet.
>>>  gnome-video-effects depends on gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad; however:
>>>   Package gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad is not installed.
>>> dpkg: error processing gnome-video-effects (--install):
>>>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>>> Processing triggers for gconf2 ...
>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
>>>  libcheese1
>>>  totem-xine
>>>  libgstfarsight0.10-0
>>>  gnome-video-effects
>>>
>>> and then apt-get -f install:
>>>
>>> node1:/home/joehill# apt-get -f install
>>> Reading package lists... Done
>>> Building dependency tree
>>> Reading state information... Done
>>> Correcting dependencies... Done
>>> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
>>>   liblash2 libclucene0ldbl csound-manpages libqca2 libqimageblitz4
>>> bind9 libqt4-assistant libhttp-access2-ruby1.8 libsolidcontrolifaces4
>>> libqzion0a
>>>   gadmin-openvpn-server python-clientform bind9utils oxygen-icon-theme
>>> oxygencursors libgdata1.4-cil bluez-cups google-gadgets-common phonon
>>>   libggadget-qt-1.0-0b lockfile-progs libgps19
>>> shared-desktop-ontologies podsleuth python-pypdf google-gadgets-gst
>>> libggadget-1.0-0b libntrack-qt4-1
>>>   python2.5-dev libpango1.0-common libeina-svn-06 libeet1
>>> virtuoso-minimal libakonadiprivate1 libsoprano4 libqt4-webkit
>>> libvirtodbc0 google-gadgets-xul
>>>   libxcb-render-util0-dev libntrack0 gadmin-openvpn-client
>>> gadmin-rsync libstreamanalyzer0 libphonon4 libpkcs11-helper1
>>> thunar-data gadmin-samba
>>>   libfluidsynth1 libkephal4 phonon-backend-xine ksysguardd gadmin-bind
>>> proftpd-basic python-gdbm libattica0 libakonadi-kabc4 libstk0c2a
>>> akonadi-server
>>>   libstreams0 gadmin-proftpd libartsc0-dev openvpn python-pythonmagick
>>> virtuoso-opensource-6.1-common libqedje0a soprano-daemon libiodbc2
>>> kaboom
>>>   virtuoso-opensource-6.1-bin libiptcdata0 python-rdflib
>>> libwebkit1.1-cil libdigest-sha1-perl
>>> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>>> The following extra packages will be installed:
>>>   brasero brasero-common empathy-common evince-common
>>> gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0
>>> gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10 gir1.2-gtk-3.0
>>>   gir1.2-json-1.0 gir1.2-nautilus-3.0 gir1.2-peas-1.0 gir1.2-totem-1.0
>>> gir1.2-totem-plparser-1.0 gstreamer0.10-gconf
>>> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
>>>   libavahi-ui-gtk3-0 libbrasero-media3-1 libevince3-3 libgdata11
>>> libgdu-gtk0 libgnome-media-profiles-3.0-0
>>> libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
>>>   libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libgtk-3-dev
>>> libnautilus-extension-dev libnautilus-extension1a libpeas-1.0-0
>>> libpeas-common libpoppler-glib6
>>>   libseed-gtk3-0 libtotem0 libtracker-sparql-0.10-0 libunique-3.0-0
>>> nautilus-data totem-common
>>> Suggested packages:
>>>   libgtk-3-doc
>>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>>   libbrasero-media0 libnautilus-extension1 seahorse-plugins totem-coherence
>>> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>>   gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gir1.2-cogl-1.0 gir1.2-coglpango-1.0
>>> gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-json-1.0
>>> gir1.2-nautilus-3.0 gir1.2-peas-1.0
>>>   gir1.2-totem-1.0 gir1.2-totem-plparser-1.0 gstreamer0.10-gconf
>>> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad libavahi-ui-gtk3-0 libbrasero-media3-1
>>> libevince3-3 libgdata11
>>>   libgnome-media-profiles-3.0-0 libgtk-3-dev libnautilus-extension1a
>>> libpeas-1.0-0 libpeas-common libpoppler-glib6 libseed-gtk3-0 libtotem0
>>>   libtracker-sparql-0.10-0 libunique-3.0-0
>>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>>   brasero brasero-common empathy-common evince-common libgdu-gtk0
>>> libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev
>>> libnautilus-extension-dev
>>>   nautilus-data totem-common
>>> 10 upgraded, 26 newly installed, 4 to remove and 657 not upgraded.
>>> 19 not fully installed or removed.
>>> Need to get 4,702 kB/37.3 MB of archives.
>>> After this operation, 32.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
>>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
>>> Get:1 http://debian.mirror.iweb.ca/debian/ unstable/main
>>> gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10 i386 0.10.35-1 [554 kB]
>>> Get:2 http://debian.mirror.iweb.ca/debian/ unstable/main
>>> libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev i386 0.10.35-1 [687 kB]
>>> Get:3 http://debian.mirror.iweb.ca/debian/ unstable/main
>>> libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 i386 0.10.35-1 [1,005 kB]
>>> Get:4 http://debian.mirror.iweb.ca/debian/ unstable/main
>>> gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad i386 0.10.22-3 [2,456 kB]
>>> Fetched 4,702 kB in 18s (255 kB/s)
>>> Retrieving bug reports... Done
>>> Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
>>> serious bugs of gstreamer0.10-gconf (-> 0.10.30-1) <unfixed>
>>>  #646325 - gstreamer0.10-gconf needs to replace gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
>>> Summary:
>>>  gstreamer0.10-gconf(1 bug)
>>> Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...]
>>> Extracting templates from packages: 100%
>>> Selecting previously unselected package gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10.
>>> (Reading database ... 315176 files and directories currently installed.)
>>> Unpacking gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10 (from
>>> .../gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10_0.10.35-1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Preparing to replace libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev 0.10.32-2
>>> (using .../libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev_0.10.35-1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev ...
>>> Preparing to replace libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 0.10.32-2 (using
>>> .../libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.35-1_i386.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 ...
>>> Unpacking gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad (from
>>> .../gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb) ...
>>> dpkg: error processing
>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb
>>> (--unpack):
>>>  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstxvid.so', which is
>>> also in package gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad 0.10.22-0.0
>>> configured to not write apport reports
>>>                                       dpkg-deb: error: subprocess
>>> paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>>> Selecting previously unselected package gir1.2-gtk-3.0.
>>> Unpacking gir1.2-gtk-3.0 (from .../gir1.2-gtk-3.0_3.0.12-2_i386.deb) ...
>>> Selecting previously unselected package gir1.2-nautilus-3.0.
>>> Unpacking gir1.2-nautilus-3.0 (from
>>> .../gir1.2-nautilus-3.0_3.0.2-4_i386.deb) ...
>>> Selecting previously unselected package libgtk-3-dev.
>>> Unpacking libgtk-3-dev (from .../libgtk-3-dev_3.0.12-2_i386.deb) ...
>>> Preparing to replace libnautilus-extension-dev 2.30.1-3 (using
>>> .../libnautilus-extension-dev_3.0.2-4_i386.deb) ...
>>> Unpacking replacement libnautilus-extension-dev ...
>>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>  /var/cache/apt/archives/gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb
>>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>>
>>> I'm now hung up on the 'gstreamer-plugins-really-bad', which also
>>> wants to take most of gnome with it.
>>
>> OK, it looks like with the files being rearranged between the gstreamer
>> plugin packages (without the correct Replaces and Conflicts statements),
>> it may be simplest to download all of those together and install them
>> at once with a single dpkg -i command.
>>
>> So if you get gstreamer-plugins-really-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad and
>> gstreamer-plugins-really-good with wget and install them at the same time,
>> that might solve the problem.  Or it might find yet another gstreamer
>> plugin package that conflicts.
>>
>> My system currently has:
>> ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad    0.10.22-3   GStreamer plugins from the "bad" set
>> ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base   0.10.35-1   GStreamer plugins from the "base" set
>> ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good   0.10.30-1   GStreamer plugins from the "good" set
>> ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly   0.10.18-3   GStreamer plugins from the "ugly" set
>>
>> I don't have gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad.
>>
>
> That one is in Debian Multimedia. However, not it's asking for:
>
> libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 (>= 0.10.33)
>
> but I can't find that in either the debian repo you linked to or
> Debian Multimedia.
>

Okay, found it (same dir as gstreamer plugins), but now this:

node1:/home/joehill# dpkg -i
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good_0.10.30-1_i386.deb
gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad_0.10.22-0.2_i386.deb
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base_0.10.35-1_i386.deb
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.35-1_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 315672 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.22-3 (using
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad ...
Preparing to replace gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.30-1 (using
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good_0.10.30-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gstreamer0.10-plugins-good ...
Preparing to replace gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad 0.10.22-0.2
(using gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad_0.10.22-0.2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad ...
Preparing to replace gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.35-1 (using
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base_0.10.35-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gstreamer0.10-plugins-base ...
Preparing to replace libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 0.10.35-1 (using
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0_0.10.35-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad:
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad depends on libmjpegtools-2.0-0; however:
  Package libmjpegtools-2.0-0 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 (0.10.35-1) ...
Setting up gstreamer0.10-plugins-base (0.10.35-1) ...
Setting up gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad (0.10.22-3) ...
Setting up gstreamer0.10-plugins-good (0.10.30-1) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0 ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad

Goddamit!

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