[Reportbug-maint] reportbug update problem

[Sandro Tosi]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:22, Stokkenes Vidar
<Vidar.Stokkenes at hn-ikt.no> wrote:
> Hello, and sorry about the last email.
>
> I have no idea why it appeared empty, I had a pretty long email written but somehow it got pummeled somehow. Sorry for writing an email if you prefer it other ways, I kinda searched on SF and Launchpad and couldn't really find you.

Becasue this is *Debian*, not SourceForce nor Ubuntu. Use Debian
webpages to search for packages/people.

> And when I look on packages.debian.org, all I really find is how to report a bug using reportbug. Kind of awkward thing to search for too.

You should have used bugs.debian.org, referring to
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting for reporting bugs using only
emails.

> Anyways here is my problem:
>
> When trying to update reportbug by using "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" I get the following error:
>
> <snip>
>
> luna:~# apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>  nav
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>  reportbug
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> 41 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/142kB of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> (Reading database ... 40977 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace reportbug 3.31 (using .../reportbug_3.31+etch1_all.deb) ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1373, in ?
>    main()
>  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1367, in main
>    rv = action.run(global_options)
>  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 952, in run
>    pkg.remove(runtimes, remove_script_files=True)
>  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 697, in remove
>    default_runtime.remove_byte_code(self.private_files)
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'remove_byte_code'
> dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1373, in ?
>    main()
>  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1367, in main
>    rv = action.run(global_options)
>  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 952, in run
>    pkg.remove(runtimes, remove_script_files=True)
>  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 697, in remove
>    default_runtime.remove_byte_code(self.private_files)
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'remove_byte_code'
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/reportbug_3.31+etch1_all.deb (--unpack):
>  subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1373, in ?
>    main()
>  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 1367, in main
>    rv = action.run(global_options)
>  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 889, in run
>    self.options.exclude, byte_compile_default=True)
>  File "/usr/bin/pycentral", line 672, in install
>    self.default_runtime.byte_compile(self.private_files,
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'byte_compile'
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/reportbug_3.31+etch1_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> luna:~#
>
> </snip>
>
> I've tried googling for the same type of error, and I found something from 2006 that was /usr/bin/python symlink related, which is not the case (my symlinks points to the most recent python install) My current version of reportbug seems to be v3.31, and I'm updating to whatever is current on the "etch" tree.
>
> Any idea why my update would fail like this?

it has alrady been reported
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=511015 - use the
solution there.

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi