[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#574199: ltsp-client-core: installation fails

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Package: ltsp-client-core
Version: 5.2-1
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: instest-20100316 instest

Hi,

While testing the installation of all packages in unstable, I ran
into the following problem:

> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
> Suggested packages:
> ldm pulseaudio-esound-compat ltspfsd mdetect alsa-utils cryptsetup
> libasound2-plugins netcat-traditional netcat rdesktop inputattach joystick
> sshfs python-serial ntpdate numlockx sdm-terminal x-display-manager
> pulseaudio esound nas sane-utils cups-bsd
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> ltsp-client-core
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 117kB of archives.
> After this operation, 639kB of additional disk space will be used.
> WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
> ltsp-client-core
> Authentication warning overridden.
> Get:1 http://localhost sid/main ltsp-client-core 5.2-1 [117kB]
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> Fetched 117kB in 2s (47.9kB/s)
> Selecting previously deselected package ltsp-client-core.
> (Reading database ... 13494 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking ltsp-client-core (from .../ltsp-client-core_5.2-1_amd64.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ltsp-client-core_5.2-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ltsp-client-core_5.2-1_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The full build log is available from:
 http://people.debian.org/~lucas/logs/2010/03/16/ltsp-client-core.log

It is reproducible by installing your package in a clean chroot, using
the debconf Noninteractive frontend, and priority: critical.

This test was carried out using about 50 AMD64 nodes of the Grid'5000
platform.  Internet was not accessible from the nodes.

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