** Description changed: + SRU report follows: + + Impact statement: 6.06 users who perform a distribution upgrade to 8.04 + may encounter xfonts-scalable failing to upgrade, which halts the + distribution upgrade. This upgrade failure may, but is not limited to, + leave the X Window System in an unusable state upon restart. The user + may work around the upgrade failure in xfonts-scalable by manually + upgrading (using dpkg -i) xfonts-utils first and then reattempting the + distribution upgrade. + + Bug fix methodology: Because 8.04's xfonts-scalable package does not + have a versioned dependency (only a dependency) on xfonts-utils, we must + ensure that the version of update-fonts-dir(8) understands the X11R7 + fonts directory semantics that 8.04's xfonts-scalable's postrm uses. The + straightforward manner of accomplishing that task is to add a versioned + dependency on 8.04's xfonts-utils to the xfonts-scalable package. + + Patch: Given at http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21791957/xfonts- + scalable_1.0.0-6ubuntu0.8.04.1.debdiff + + Instructions to reproduce the symptom: Perform a distribution upgrade + (via network and update-manager/8.04 alternate image) to 8.04 from 6.06. + Nondeterministically, xfonts-utils will not be upgraded prior to xfonts- + scalable; in this scenario, the distribution upgrade will fail due to + the older version of update-fonts-dir remaining. + + Regression potential: xfonts-scalable is a dependency of the xorg + metapackage and libinventor0. In turn, the xorg metapackage is a + dependency of several -client, -frontend, and -desktop metapackages. + Because xfonts-utils will be installed prior to xfonts-scalable, none of + these metapackages will be affected, and thus, the regression potential + is extremely low (negligible). + + Original bug report follows: + Binary package hint: xfonts-scalable r...@sivaji-desktop:~# apt-get install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 622 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up xfonts-scalable (1.0.0-6) ... Invalid string keyword: chassis-type Valid string keywords are: bios-vendor bios-version bios-release-date system-manufacturer system-product-name system-version system-serial-number baseboard-manufacturer baseboard-product-name baseboard-version baseboard-serial-number baseboard-asset-tag chassis-manufacturer chassis-version chassis-serial-number chassis-asset-tag processor-manufacturer processor-version usage error: unrecognized option Usage: update-fonts-dir DIRECTORY ... update-fonts-dir { -h | --help } This program is a wrapper for mkfontdir(1x) that is primarily useful to Debian package maintainer scripts. See update-fonts-dir(8) for more information. Options: -h, --help display this usage message and exit dpkg: error processing xfonts-scalable (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: xfonts-scalable E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-- missing versioned dependency of xfonts-utils aborts distribution upgrade from dapper/edgy at xfonts-scalable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107687 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
