Debian Bug report logs - #323897
base-config: unable to upgrade to 2.70 (syntax error)

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Yolker <yolker@yolker.be>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: base-config: unable to upgrade to 2.70 (syntax error)

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:45:07 +0200

Package: base-config
Version: 2.70
Severity: important



When I want to upgrade base-config, it failed with this error :

# apt-get install base-config
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances... Fait
base-config est déjà la plus récente version disponible.
0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 6 non mis à jour.
1 partiellement installés ou enlevés.
Il est nécessaire de prendre 0o dans les archives.
Après dépaquetage, 0o d'espace disque supplémentaires seront utilisés.
Paramétrage de base-config (2.70) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base-config.postinst: line 59: syntax error near
unexpected token `db_fset'
dpkg : erreur de traitement de base-config (--configure) :
 le sous-processus post-installation script a retourné une erreur de
 sortie d'état 2
 Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
  base-config
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  zsh: exit 100   apt-get install base-config


  

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=fr_BE@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages base-config depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.67             Add and remove users and groups
ii  apt                     0.6.40.1         Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  bsdutils                1:2.12p-6        Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii  console-data            2002.12.04dbs-49 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall
ii  console-tools           1:0.2.3dbs-56    Linux console and font utilities
ii  debconf                 1.4.57           Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils             2.14.2           Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  gettext-base            0.14.5-2         GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  passwd                  1:4.0.3-39       change and administer password and

base-config recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded

Message #10 received at 323897@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: vesse@utsjokelainen.com

To: 323897@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: base-config: unable to upgrade to 2.70 (syntax error)

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:19:18 +0300

And in English:

Setting up base-config (2.70) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/base-config.postinst: line 59: syntax error near unexpected
token `db_fset'
dpkg: error processing base-config (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 base-config
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



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Message #15 received at 323897@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rens Houben <shadur@systemec.nl>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <323897@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: base-config: Error is caused by extraneous \ on line 57

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:57:58 +0200

Package: base-config
Version: 2.70
Followup-For: Bug #323897

Because line 57 ends in a backslash, the 'do' on line 58 gets parsed as
another argument to the 'for' list, which causes the error. Remove the \
and the script runs fine.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.3
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages base-config depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.67             Add and remove users and groups
ii  apt                     0.6.40.1         Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  bsdutils                1:2.12p-6        Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii  console-data            2002.12.04dbs-49 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall
ii  console-tools           1:0.2.3dbs-56    Linux console and font utilities
ii  debconf                 1.4.57           Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils             2.14.2           Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  gettext-base            0.14.5-2         GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  passwd                  1:4.0.3-39       change and administer password and

base-config recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded

Message #20 received at 323897@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Gutmann <gutmann@uni-duesseldorf.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <323897@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Missing ; in base-config.postinst

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:03:10 +0200

Package: base-config
Version: 2.70
Followup-For: Bug #323897


A ; is missing before do ;-)

====
        for q in mirror/suite mirror/http/proxy apt-setup/uri_type \
                apt-setup/country apt-setup/mirror apt-setup/hostname \
                apt-setup/directory apt-setup/baddir apt-setup/not-mirror \
                apt-setup/cd/dev apt-setup/cd/bad apt-setup/cd/another \
                apt-setup/non-free apt-setup/contrib apt-setup/badsource \
                apt-setup/another apt-setup/badedit \
                apt-setup/security-updates \
                apt-setup/security-updates-failed \
        do
                db_fset $q seen false || true
        done
====
After editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-config.postinst 
dpkg -a --configure run without problems.

Best regards,
Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE@euro)

Versions of packages base-config depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.67             Add and remove users and groups
ii  apt                     0.6.40.1         Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  bsdutils                1:2.12p-6        Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii  console-data            2002.12.04dbs-49 Keymaps, fonts, charset maps, fall
ii  console-tools           1:0.2.3dbs-56    Linux console and font utilities
ii  debconf                 1.4.57           Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils             2.14.2           Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  gettext-base            0.14.5-2         GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  passwd                  1:4.0.3-39       change and administer password and

base-config recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded

Message #25 received at 323897@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: Yolker <yolker@yolker.be>, 323897@bugs.debian.org, Carlos González <carlosgd@madridwireless.net>, 323907@bugs.debian.org, moi <moi1392@gmail.com>, 323926@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#323897: base-config: unable to upgrade to 2.70 (syntax error)

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 03:21:36 -0700

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severity 323897 grave
close 323897 2.71
merge 323897 323852
severity 323907 grave
close 323907 2.71
merge 323907 323852
severity 323926 grave
close 323926 2.71
merge 323926 323852
thanks

These are all duplicate reports of a bug that has already been fixed in
base-config 2.71, which has been uploaded and is currently available in
incoming.debian.org.  Please check the list of existing bugs at
bugs.debian.org before reporting new bugs.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/

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