[Evolution] Bug#587413: Bug#587413: evolution fails on lenny -> squeeze full-upgrade

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On 28/06/2010 14:58, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 02:59:28PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> On 28/06/2010 14:25, maximilian attems wrote:
>>>  Preparing to replace evolution 2.22.3.1-1 (using .../evolution_2.30.1.2-3_amd64.deb) ...
>>>  Evolution is still running, aborting...
>>>  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/evolution_2.30.1.2-3_amd64.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>>
>> Could you explain how you did the upgrade? Especially, did you see the
>> debconf note about stopping all evolution processes?
> 
> the current upgrade from lenny to squeeze is quite borked due to
> a) apt-get wanting to nuke all xorg
> b) udev beeing again a pain in the arse.
> 
> so I don't remember when aboves happened in the myriad of
> dpkg --configure -a
> apt-get -f install
> aptitude --full-upgrade
> 
> but i didn't get a debconf note, no.
> hmm checking the root mail account, I see lots of mails telling me to:
> evolution --force-shutdown
> why can't that be done by hand,

As said on irc, we can't kill an user process, that'd definitely be a
bad behavior.

 note that evolution was not actively
> used on that workstation. It came with gnome.

Maybe, but there's no way we can know, and running the above command
would have solved this.
> 
> debconf was set to Noninteractive and critical priority.
> 
Well, I'm not sure there's a nice solution to this. We can't upgrade if
evolution is running, and we can't kill it unconditionally.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis