[mythtv-users] Mythtv v31 update failure

Tim Pletcher pletchtd at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 13:59:11 UTC 2020


On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 5:30 AM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> just ran an update this morning on v31 and I got a failure on mythweb
> again after I got it fixed the other day. the reset of mythtv updated to
> 2:31.0+fixes.202003051106.1460627~ubuntu18.04.1
> console log:
> Removing mythweb (2:31.0+fixes.202003030929.54a568d~ubuntu18.04.1) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/mythweb.postrm: 34: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mythweb.postrm:
> Syntax error: newline unexpected (expecting ")")
> dpkg: error processing package mythweb (--remove):
>  installed mythweb package post-removal script subprocess returned error
> exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  mythweb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
> I received the same error today on my 18.04 installation with 31/fixes.

There is still an errant ;; in line 31 of the file
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mythweb.postrm.  I edited this file to comment out the
offending line.  After doing so, 'apt get upgrade' will upgrade mythweb
without issue.
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