[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#532008: openmpi-bin: ..update fails with: "alternative mpiexec can't be master: it is a slave of mpirun"

[Arnt Karlsen]

Package: openmpi-bin
Version: 1.3.2-2
Severity: important


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Updating Debian Packages of System Configurations (dpsyco).
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up openmpi-bin (1.3.2-2) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative mpiexec can't be master: it is a slave of mpirun
dpkg: error processing openmpi-bin (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openmpi-bin
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages openmpi-bin depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.0-5  GCC support library
ii  libopenmpi1.3                 1.3.2-2    high performance message passing l
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.0-5    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  openmpi-common                1.3.2-2    high performance message passing l

openmpi-bin recommends no packages.

Versions of packages openmpi-bin suggests:
ii  gfortran                      4:4.3.3-8  The GNU Fortran 95 compiler

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