Hi, My Puppet Dashboard is running on Debian stable, installed from puppetlabs repositories. The last upgrade completely broke down. See below for the output:
# aptitude safe-upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: libactionmailer-ruby1.8 libactionpack-ruby1.8 libactiverecord-ruby1.8 libactiveresource-ruby1.8 libactivesupport-ruby1.8 puppet-dashboard rails rails-ruby1.8 8 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 6,393 kB of archives. After unpacking 115 kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Get:1 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main rails-ruby1.8 all 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze5 [223 kB] Get:2 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main libactiverecord-ruby1.8 all 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze5 [265 kB] Get:3 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main libactivesupport-ruby1.8 all 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze5 [256 kB] Get:4 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main libactionmailer-ruby1.8 all 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze5 [32.1 kB] Get:5 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main libactionpack-ruby1.8 all 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze5 [321 kB] Get:6 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main libactiveresource-ruby1.8 all 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze5 [37.2 kB] Get:7 http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main rails all 2.3.5-1.2+squeeze5 [12.3 kB] Get:8 http://apt.puppetlabs.com/ squeeze/main puppet-dashboard all 1.2.20-1puppetlabs1 [5,246 kB] Fetched 6,393 kB in 11s (564 kB/s) Reading changelogs... Done (Reading database ... 52761 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace puppet-dashboard 1.2.17-1puppetlabs1 (using .../puppet-dashboard_1.2.20-1puppetlabs1_all.deb) ... Stopping Puppet Dashboard Workers:E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly A package failed to install. Trying to recover: dpkg: error processing puppet-dashboard (--configure): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting configuration. Errors were encountered while processing: puppet-dashboard # apt-get install puppet-dashboard --reinstall Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: puppet-dashboard 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/5,246 kB of archives. After this operation, 115 kB disk space will be freed. Reading changelogs... Done Selecting previously deselected package puppet-dashboard. (Reading database ... 52761 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace puppet-dashboard 1.2.17-1puppetlabs1 (using .../puppet-dashboard_1.2.20-1puppetlabs1_all.deb) ... Stopping Puppet Dashboard Workers:E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg exited unexpectedly # apt-get remove puppet-dashboard E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem. # dpkg --configure -a dpkg: error processing puppet-dashboard (--configure): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting configuration. Errors were encountered while processing: puppet-dashboard -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/giSi5xXYhngJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.