Comment 60 for bug 1560797

Richard and Winfried,

   I thank you both for your input and knowledge. I did basically
:
apt-get autoremove

apt-get update

apt-get install -f

then everything seem to work, for now??? I will wait for the next updates
and see if anything happens.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 2:16 PM, Winfried PLappert <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Richard, you should be okay. I have had very similar problems when I
> upgraded my virtual systems from wily (1510) to xenial (1604) when they
> there still were in development mode. I recovered the upgrade by apt-get
> -f install, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade (issued a few times).
>
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> duplicate bug report (1573198).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1560797
>
> Title:
> apt does not configure Pre-Depends: before depending package
>
> Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in apt source package in Trusty:
> Fix Released
> Status in apt source package in Wily:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Happened during upgrade to 16.04, don't know any more details.
>
> --
> SRU INFORMATION
> ===============
> Fix: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/apt/apt.git/commit/?id=c75e60eb
> (applied in Xenial last week)
>
> Test case:
> - Install clean wily amd64 desktop + install libgcrypt20:i386
> - change apt sources to xenial, apt-get dist-upgrade
> - with current apt, upgrade will often fail because systemd expects a
> configure libgcrypt20, or util-linux expects a configured libudev1 or
> similar, but these packages aren't configured.
> - with the fixed apt, the upgrade should run smoothly.
>
> Regression potential: Any bug here might potentially break package
> installation or upgrades completely. That said, the fix is quite
> obvious and has been in production in xenial for a week. Testing this
> SRU should include several dist-upgrades as well as some normal
> package installs in trusty/wily.
>
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
> Package: systemd-sysv 225-1ubuntu9.1
> Uname: Linux 4.4.5-040405-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Tue Mar 22 22:56:03 2016
> ErrorMessage: pre-dependency problem - not installing systemd-sysv
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-24 (1064 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64
> (20130423.1)
> RelatedPackageVersions:
> dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1
> apt 1.2.7
> SourcePackage: systemd
> Title: package systemd-sysv 225-1ubuntu9.1 failed to install/upgrade:
> pre-dependency problem - not installing systemd-sysv
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-23 (0 days ago)
>
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