adept fails to upgrade from hardy -> karmic

Here is the error:

2009-10-15 12:36:33,165 INFO cache.commit()
2009-10-15 12:36:33,427 DEBUG fork pid is: 0
2009-10-15 12:36:33,429 DEBUG fork pid is: 7818
2009-10-15 12:36:33,550 ERROR Exception during pm.DoInstall()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/kde-tester/adept_managerlU8Zka.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeView.py", line 143, in run
    res = pm.DoInstall(self.writefd)
SystemError: E:Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on sysvinit-utils

That is a problem with apt/libapt

mvo just to confirm.

I did a basic install of Kubuntu.
I updated kubuntu with all the hardy updates.
I enabled proposed to get the adept sru update.

I then ran sudo adept_manager --dist-upgrade-devel-lts

devel by itself upgrades to intrepid.

I can recreate this bug with a fresh install from a hardy CD

I can reproduce the problem in a VM:

The dependencies look as following:

Package: sysvinit-utils
Priority: required
Depends: upstart (>= 0.6.3-4)

Package: upstart
Priority: required
Pre-Depends: sysvinit-utils

Because of the pre-depends apt would have to unpack and configure sysinit-utils before upstart, but upstart is a dependency of sysvinit-utils so it can not configure it until upstart is unpacked.

Its actually worse, because both packages are really low in the dependency chain and util-linux (with essential=yes) needs them, apt wants to do a immediate configure on both of them. So even if the Pre-Depends sysvinit-utils becomes
a normal depends apt will still error out unless it is called with "-o Apt::Immediate-Configure=false" (which is in itself dangerous).

The pre-dependency of util-linux for upstart is added by ${misc:Depends}.

The dependency was only recently added:

diff -Nru sysvinit-2.87dsf/debian/changelog sysvinit-2.87dsf/debian/changelog
--- sysvinit-2.87dsf/debian/changelog 2009-09-22 01:29:35.000000000 +0200
+++ sysvinit-2.87dsf/debian/changelog 2009-09-22 23:26:18.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+sysvinit (2.87dsf-4ubuntu7) karmic; urgency=low
+
+ * debian/rules: add a versioned dependency on the upstart that provides
+ the reload action
+ * debian/service/service: handle reload and force-reload actions as
+ upstart commands, LP: #433544
+
+ -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:25:37 -0700
+
 sysvinit (2.87dsf-4ubuntu6) karmic; urgency=low

   * Remove conffiles that are no longer included in this package.
diff -Nru sysvinit-2.87dsf/debian/control sysvinit-2.87dsf/debian/control
--- sysvinit-2.87dsf/debian/control 2009-09-19 22:32:04.000000000 +0200
+++ sysvinit-2.87dsf/debian/control 2009-09-22 23:25:34.000000000 +0200
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 Conflicts: last, sysvconfig, chkconfig (<< 11.0-79.1-1ubuntu1), sysvconfig (<< 0.80ubuntu1)
 Replaces: sysvutils (<< 2.86.ds1-56ubuntu1), last, sysvinit (<= 2.86.ds1-65), sysvconfig (<< 0.80ubuntu1)
 Provides: sysvutils
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, upstart (>= 0.6.3-4)
 Suggests: sash
 Description: System-V-like utilities
  This package contains the important System-V-like utilities.

and AFAICS it does not need to be a strict one.

Closing manually due to changelog typo:

sysvinit (2.87dsf-4ubuntu11) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
    - Change the upstart dependency to a recommend in sysinit-utils
      because its not a hard dependency. This will fix a dependency
      cycle that causes kubuntu upgrades to fail (LP: ä452090)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:12:44 +0200

I can confirm it works. The only issue I had was

/usr/bin/diff: /etc/X11/app-defaults/Xedit: No such file or directory

and Adept telling me later (much later) that there was a difference. Then showed zero differences..

But now running Karmic coming from Hardy directly.