8.04->9.04-beta upgrade: Could not install 'base-passwd'

Thanks for your bugreport.

Please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/* to this report.

here it is

Here is the error:

Preparing to replace base-passwd 3.5.16 (using .../base-passwd_3.5.21_i386.deb)
...
Can't locate Pod/Usage.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/
5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/
5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/sbin/install-docs li
ne 18.
Global symbol "$opt_rootdir" requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/install
-docs line 136.
Execution of /usr/sbin/install-docs aborted due to compilation errors.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 9
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK.
Unpacking replacement base-passwd ...
Setting up base-passwd (3.5.21) ...
Can't locate Pod/Usage.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/
5.8.8 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/
5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/sbin/install-docs li
ne 18.
Global symbol "$opt_rootdir" requires explicit package name at /usr/sbin/install
-docs line 136.
Execution of /usr/sbin/install-docs aborted due to compilation errors.
dpkg: error processing base-passwd (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Errors were encountered while processing:
 base-passwd

It looks like this is fixed in jaunty, but intrepid has 0.8.16:

doc-base (0.8.18) unstable; urgency=medium

  * install-docs.in: include $opt_rootdir in used vars not to fail when
    Perl is in unusable state (closes: #501874). In such a case install-docs
    should try to recover on next invokation (see entry for version 0.8.4)

 -- Robert Luberda <email address hidden> Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:34:09 +0100

And the diff is pretty trivial:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19752115/doc-base_0.8.17_0.8.18.diff.gz

Michael,

The diff you point to is already included in jaunty, right? So what else needs changed here for jaunty? Or should this bug be re-targeted to intrepid?

agradeceria inmensamente las respuestas en español pues no entiendo nada de
ingles . gracias.

2009/3/30 Steve Langasek <email address hidden>

> Michael,
>
> The diff you point to is already included in jaunty, right? So what
> else needs changed here for jaunty? Or should this bug be re-targeted
> to intrepid?
>
> --
> 8.04->9.04-beta updgrade: Could not install 'base-passwd'
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/349725
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “doc-base” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in doc-base in Ubuntu Jaunty: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: update-manager
>
> kubuntu-8.04-to-9.04-beta-upgrade
>
> Error
> Could not install 'base-passwd'
> The upgrade will continue but the 'base-passwd' package may be in a not
> working state. Please conside submitting a bug report about it.
>
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
>

--
RECIBE UN ABRAZO DE PAZ ¡ SHALOM !

The fix was backported from 0.8.18, thus this is fixed in Jaunty.

Accepted into intrepid-proposed; please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Accepted into hardy-proposed; please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

I was able to reproduce some of the package installation failures while performing the kubuntu-8.04-to-9.04 upgrade (via jriddell's script) with doc-base 0.8.7 from the 8.04 release. With doc-base 0.8.7ubuntu1 from hardy-proposed, I was able to perform the same upgrade without hitting the package installation errors. Cursory explorations with dhelp and doc-central with doc-base 0.8.7ubuntu1 (pre-upgrade) didn't show any obvious regressions.

I consider the hardy component of this bug verification-done. Thanks!

I was not able to reproduce the upgrade failure while upgrading from intrepid kubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 with doc-base 0.8.16 from intrepid, but I was able to successfully upgrade from 8.10->9.04 with the version of doc-base from intrepid-proposed, 0.8.16ubuntu1. Also, basic exploration of documentation in 8.10 after the installation of doc-base from intrepid-proposed did not show any obvious regressions.

Since this is having a severe effect on Kubuntu upgrade testing, and since the patch is very simple, I'm going to waive the aging period for this update and copy it to hardy-updates and intrepid-updates now.

This bug was fixed in the package doc-base - 0.8.7ubuntu1

---------------
doc-base (0.8.7ubuntu1) hardy-proposed; urgency=low

  * backport fix from 0.8.18 to fix potential upgrade
    failures (LP: #349725)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:31:57 +0200

This bug was fixed in the package doc-base - 0.8.16ubuntu1

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doc-base (0.8.16ubuntu1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * backport fix from 0.8.18 to fix potential upgrade
    failures (LP: #349725)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:44:06 +0200

update-manager will patch (the diff is very small) install-docs before the first dpkg run is done so that people upgrading from CD without the chance to update installd-docs from -updates have a working version.