[mythtv-users] myth-common failing on debian

Brandon Dwiel bdon003 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 00:12:29 UTC 2009


Does this seem likely to be a packaging bug?  I have purged everything  
related to mythtv from my system and tried installing again with the  
same outcome.  Has anybody else had this issue, though?


Brandon


Hello,
   I am installing mythtv on debian Lenny and ran into a slight problem.
Here is the output of aptitude:

root at brandon-debian:/home/brandon003# aptitude install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
   mythtv-common mythtv mythtv-backend mythtv-database
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
...
Setting up mjpegtools (1:1.8.0-0.9) ...
Setting up mythtv-common (0.21.svn20090115-0.0) ...
dpkg: error processing mythtv-common (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 128
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv-database:
  mythtv-database depends on mythtv-common (= 0.21.svn20090115-0.0);  
however:
   Package mythtv-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mythtv-database (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv-frontend:
  mythtv-frontend depends on mythtv-common (= 0.21.svn20090115-0.0);  
however:
   Package mythtv-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mythtv-frontend (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up transcode (3:1.1.0-0.0) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv-backend:
  mythtv-backend depends on mythtv-common (= 0.21.svn20090115-0.0);  
however:
   Package mythtv-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mythtv-backend (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv:
  mythtv depends on mythtv-database (>= 0.21.svn20090115-0.0); however:
   Package mythtv-database is not configured yet.
  mythtv depends on mythtv-frontend (>= 0.21.svn20090115-0.0); however:
   Package mythtv-frontend is not configured yet.
  mythtv depends on mythtv-backend (>= 0.21.svn20090115-0.0); however:
   Package mythtv-backend is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mythtv (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv-themes:
  mythtv-themes depends on mythtv-frontend (>= 0.17-1); however:
   Package mythtv-frontend is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mythtv-themes (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up sox (14.0.1-2+b1) ...
Setting up libtext-bidi-perl (0.03-4+b1) ...
Setting up xmltv-util (0.5.52-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
  mythtv-common
  mythtv-database
  mythtv-frontend
  mythtv-backend
  mythtv
  mythtv-themes
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up mythtv-common (0.21.svn20090115-0.0) ...
dpkg: error processing mythtv-common (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 128
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv-backend:
  mythtv-backend depends on mythtv-common (= 0.21.svn20090115-0.0);  
however:
   Package mythtv-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mythtv-backend (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv-frontend:
  mythtv-frontend depends on mythtv-common (= 0.21.svn20090115-0.0);  
however:
   Package mythtv-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mythtv-frontend (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv-database:
  mythtv-database depends on mythtv-common (= 0.21.svn20090115-0.0);  
however:
   Package mythtv-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mythtv-database (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv-themes:
  mythtv-themes depends on mythtv-frontend (>= 0.17-1); however:
   Package mythtv-frontend is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mythtv-themes (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythtv:
  mythtv depends on mythtv-database (>= 0.21.svn20090115-0.0); however:
   Package mythtv-database is not configured yet.
  mythtv depends on mythtv-frontend (>= 0.21.svn20090115-0.0); however:
   Package mythtv-frontend is not configured yet.
  mythtv depends on mythtv-backend (>= 0.21.svn20090115-0.0); however:
   Package mythtv-backend is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing mythtv (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
  mythtv-common
  mythtv-backend
  mythtv-frontend
  mythtv-database
  mythtv-themes
  mythtv
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done


I found that the problem comes from
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mythtv-common.postinst line 5 - ".
/usr/share/debconf/confmodule".  I traced confmodule and it gets to  
line 18
- "exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend $0 "$@" once it detects the  
frontend.
After that is a little beyond me because I don't have experience with  
perl
or debconf.  Mythtv still works despite this, but I'd like to know  
what is
wrong and to stop this error from appearing everytime I use aptitude.

Thanks,
Brandon
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