siduction-settings-kde installation failure

[clubex]

During today's du the following occurred:

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setting up siduction-settings-kde (2013.06.31.1)...
basename:missing operand
Try 'basename --help' for more information
dpkg:error processing siduction-settings-kde (--configure):
subprocess install post-installation script returned error exit status 1


I haven't found anything wrong (yet) when using KDE although a reboot might.

[piper]

When was the last time you did a d-u ?

The last time that I know this was updated (siduction-settings-kde)   was

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Start-Date: 2013-06-21  10:36:30
Commandline: apt-get dist-upgrade

This was on 4 machines with no problems

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Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded is what I have after todays d-u which was

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The following packages will be upgraded:
  debhelper libxext-dev libxext6 libxext6:i386 libxfixes-dev libxfixes3 libxfixes3:i386 libxi6 libxi6:i386 libxinerama1
  libxinerama1:i386 libxrandr2 libxrandr2:i386 libxrender1 libxrender1:i386 patch phonon-backend-gstreamer wireless-regdb
18 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,565 kB of archives.
After this operation, 46.1 kB disk space will be freed. Depending on your apps it will be more/less

[clubex]

Piper: du at approx 22.30 GMT on 2013.06.30 (previous du was late morning of the same day). Note the package version name is 2013.06.31.1 which is presumably a date although June has only 30 days not 31.

Presumably you'll discover the error on your next du.

[piper]

What repo are you using in the uk, I will use that one "if" it is indeed synced before ours.

I would like to see

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apt-cache policy siduction-settings-kde

[convbsd]

Hi clubex,
What shells do use existing users in your's system ?
Is your's /etc/passwd ok ?
Each line of /etc/passwd should have 7 fields  separated by a colon (:) symbol.
Also it may be possible to have an empty line at the end of /etc/passwd.
Please check/fix your's /etc/passwd and reinstall siduction-settings-kde.
Thank you.

[clubex]

piper: icelantic repo ie.

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deb http://ftp.is.debian.org/debian/ unstable non-free contrib main


(was fastest repo)

convbsd: Non of your sugestions had any effect.

Only problem I can find relating to passwords is kdesu hangs after entering root password.

Trying to reinstall gives:

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E:Internal error. No filename for siduction-settings-kde:amd64.

although apt-cache showpkg shows it's at least partially installed.

This looks like a coding bug to me or perhaps the new siduction-settings-kde introduces a change in the methods of configing KDE. If there is no new siduction-settings-kde in today's dus I'm going to drop back to the testing version or perhaps remove it.

[clubex]

Purging and reinstalling siduction-settings-kde (ssk) removes the installation errors in my earlier posts. Which does suggest that the new ssk has something does new to a KDE config.

Unfortunately kdesu no longer starts therefore all packages which require it no longer function.

And:

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sux kuser
No passwd entry for user 'kuser'


Edit:

From terminal:

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kdesu kuser
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
kdesu(4122)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::PtyProcess::exec: [ ../../kdesu/process.cpp : 293 ]  Running "/usr/bin/sudo"
kdesu(4122)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [ ../../kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line "[sudo] password for keith: "
kdesu(4122)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::PtyProcess::exec: [ ../../kdesu/process.cpp : 293 ]  Running "/usr/bin/sudo"
kdesu(4122)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [ ../../kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line "[sudo] password for keith: "
kdesu(4122)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::PtyProcess::WaitSlave: [ ../../kdesu/process.cpp : 379 ]  Child pid 4127
kdesu(4122)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [ ../../kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line ""
kdesu(4122)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [ ../../kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line "Sorry, try again."
kdesu(4122)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::SuProcess::ConverseSU: [ ../../kdesu/su.cpp : 259 ]  Read line "[sudo] password for keith: "


So password failure might indeed be at the bottom of this. Anyone have any further ideas?

[convbsd]

Hi,
As I understood purging and reinstalling worked. I am glad to hear that but still don't figure what's happened about basename related error.
Thank you.

[piper]

Well, I wasn't hit with what your were hit with and I tend to agree with convbsd on this point.

What happened to me was a little different and apt-get -f install fixed it

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The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libldap-2.4-2:i386 libsasl2-2:i386 libsasl2-modules:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  siduction-settings-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  cpp distro-defaults fll-live-initscripts fll-live-utils g++ g++-multilib gcc gcc-multilib grub-theme-siduction-paintitblack
  libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa:i386 libgmp10 libgmpxx4ldbl liblua5.2-0 libsasl2-2 libsasl2-modules pm-utils
  siduction-art-kde-paintitblack siduction-art-kdm-paintitblack siduction-art-ksplash-paintitblack
  siduction-art-wallpaper-paintitblack siduction-settings-kde
22 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8,375 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,116 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main libsasl2-modules amd64 2.1.25.dfsg1-12 [123 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main libsasl2-2 amd64 2.1.25.dfsg1-12 [109 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main libglu1-mesa i386 9.0.0-1 [222 kB]
Get:4 ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/siduction/base/ unstable/main distro-defaults all 2013.06.31.1 [19.4 kB]
Get:5 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main libglu1-mesa amd64 9.0.0-1 [224 kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main libgmp10 amd64 2:5.1.2+dfsg-2 [267 kB]
Get:7 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main libgmpxx4ldbl amd64 2:5.1.2+dfsg-2 [22.8 kB]
Get:8 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main liblua5.2-0 amd64 5.2.2-1 [95.6 kB]
Get:9 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main cpp amd64 4:4.8.1-2 [16.9 kB]
Get:10 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main gcc amd64 4:4.8.1-2 [4,996 B]
Get:11 ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/siduction/base/ unstable/main fll-live-utils amd64 2013.06.31.1 [37.2 kB]
Get:12 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main g++ amd64 4:4.8.1-2 [1,364 B]
Get:13 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main gcc-multilib amd64 4:4.8.1-2 [890 B]
Get:14 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main g++-multilib amd64 4:4.8.1-2 [830 B]
Get:15 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main pm-utils all 1.4.1-10 [125 kB]
Get:16 ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/siduction/base/ unstable/main fll-live-initscripts all 2013.06.31.1 [33.3 kB]
Get:17 ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/siduction/base/ unstable/main grub-theme-siduction-paintitblack all 0.2.4 [2,890 kB]
Get:18 ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/siduction/base/ unstable/main siduction-art-ksplash-paintitblack all 0.2.4 [1,118 kB]
Get:19 ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/siduction/base/ unstable/main siduction-art-kdm-paintitblack all 0.2.4 [119 kB]            
Get:20 ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/siduction/base/ unstable/main siduction-art-wallpaper-paintitblack all 0.2.4 [2,895 kB]    
Get:21 ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/siduction/base/ unstable/main siduction-art-kde-paintitblack all 0.2.4 [6,188 B]            
Get:22 ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/siduction/base/ unstable/main siduction-settings-common all 2013.06.31.1 [17.2 kB]          
Get:23 ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/siduction/base/ unstable/main siduction-settings-kde all 2013.06.31.1 [28.0 kB]            
Fetched 8,375 kB in 14s (580 kB/s)                                                                                                
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 223650 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libldap-2.4-2:i386 ...
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Processing triggers for man-db ...
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(Reading database ... 223621 files and directories currently installed.)
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Preparing to replace fll-live-initscripts 3.16.10 (using .../fll-live-initscripts_2013.06.31.1_all.deb) ...
############################################################
Installing this package is dangerous and not supported!
Aborting installation.
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dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fll-live-initscripts_2013.06.31.1_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Preparing to replace grub-theme-siduction-paintitblack 0.2.2 (using .../grub-theme-siduction-paintitblack_0.2.4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement grub-theme-siduction-paintitblack ...
Preparing to replace siduction-art-ksplash-paintitblack 0.2.2 (using .../siduction-art-ksplash-paintitblack_0.2.4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement siduction-art-ksplash-paintitblack ...
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Unpacking replacement siduction-art-kdm-paintitblack ...
Preparing to replace siduction-art-wallpaper-paintitblack 0.2.2 (using .../siduction-art-wallpaper-paintitblack_0.2.4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement siduction-art-wallpaper-paintitblack ...
Preparing to replace siduction-art-kde-paintitblack 0.2.2 (using .../siduction-art-kde-paintitblack_0.2.4_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement siduction-art-kde-paintitblack ...
Selecting previously unselected package siduction-settings-common.
Unpacking siduction-settings-common (from .../siduction-settings-common_2013.06.31.1_all.deb) ...
Preparing to replace siduction-settings-kde 2013.06.20 (using .../siduction-settings-kde_2013.06.31.1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement siduction-settings-kde ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/fll-live-initscripts_2013.06.31.1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@x1:/home/piper# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
20 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up libsasl2-modules:amd64 (2.1.25.dfsg1-12) ...
Setting up libsasl2-2:amd64 (2.1.25.dfsg1-12) ...
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Setting up libgmpxx4ldbl:amd64 (2:5.1.2+dfsg-2) ...
Setting up liblua5.2-0:amd64 (5.2.2-1) ...
Setting up cpp (4:4.8.1-2) ...
Setting up gcc (4:4.8.1-2) ...
Setting up g++ (4:4.8.1-2) ...
Setting up gcc-multilib (4:4.8.1-2) ...
Setting up g++-multilib (4:4.8.1-2) ...
Setting up pm-utils (1.4.1-10) ...
Setting up distro-defaults (2013.06.31.1) ...
distro-defaults: overriding LSB init info for kdm ...
Setting up fll-live-utils (2013.06.31.1) ...
Setting up grub-theme-siduction-paintitblack (0.2.4) ...
Setting up siduction-art-ksplash-paintitblack (0.2.4) ...
Setting up siduction-art-kdm-paintitblack (0.2.4) ...
Setting up siduction-art-wallpaper-paintitblack (0.2.4) ...
Setting up siduction-art-kde-paintitblack (0.2.4) ...
Setting up siduction-settings-common (2013.06.31.1) ...
Setting up siduction-settings-kde (2013.06.31.1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
root@x1:/home/piper#

[Santa]

Hi,

it seems it's a bug. Not everybody can reproduce it, but fortunately I could, we will try to fix it soon.

[clubex]

Thanks Santa.

[clubex]

Installed the new siduction-setting-kde and still have problems with kdesu
eg. launching kuser from desktop produces the dialogue and after entering root password just hangs until the desktop freezes.

Launching any app requiring root password causes errors eg. from kconsole as root:

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sux kuser
No passwd entry for user 'kuser'

and as user from kconsole

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kuser


produces a dialogue with 'Error opening /etc/shadow for reading'. Clicking OK opens kuser.

Something in the siduction-settings-* seems to have effected password config. Scary. Any thoughts anyone?

[convbsd]

Hi clubex,

To fix this please remove $HOME/.kde/share/config/kdesurc file.
Also /etc/skel/.kde/share/config/kdesurc.There is already a topic about it.

Please take a look also to http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=3608

Posting this you have already helped.
If you can help more it will be great.

Thank you.

[clubex]

Thanks convbsd: I remember these removals in another related topic. Only thing is I don't have a /etc/skel/.kde/share/config/kdesurc. I instead have /etc/skel/Desktop/bluewater-manual.desktop which is strange?

Removing kdesurc did the job. Thanks again.