Problem with syslinux and syslinux-commmon vs dpkg from Ubuntu 10.04
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#5 Problem with syslinux and syslinux-commmon vs dpkg from Ubuntu 10.04
I believe that the new version of syslinux and syslinux-common that is in the drbl SF repos uses compression that is incompatible with the version of dpkg that is installed in Ubuntu 10.04. I am using the amd64 server edition, and I encountered this error today:
root@wilson:/home/shaun# apt-get install drbl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl syslinux syslinux-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
drbl libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl syslinux-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
syslinux
1 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2,767kB of archives.
After this operation, 7,552kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Selecting previously deselected package libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl.
(Reading database ... 81127 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl (from .../libcrypt-passwdmd5-perl_1.3-9_all.deb) ...
Preparing to replace syslinux 2:3.63+dfsg-2ubuntu3 (using .../syslinux_2%3a4.06+dfsg-1.drbl1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement syslinux ...
dpkg-deb: file /var/cache/apt/archives/syslinux_2%3a4.06+dfsg-1.drbl1_amd64.deb' contains ununderstood data member data.tar.xz , giving up
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/syslinux_2%3a4.06+dfsg-1.drbl1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
dpkg: considering deconfiguration of syslinux, which would be broken by installation of syslinux-common ...
dpkg: yes, will deconfigure syslinux (broken by syslinux-common).
Unpacking syslinux-common (from .../syslinux-common_2%3a4.06+dfsg-1.drbl1_all.deb) ...
De-configuring syslinux ...
dpkg-deb: file/var/cache/apt/archives/syslinux-common_2%3a4.06+dfsg-1.drbl1_all.deb' contains ununderstood data member data.tar.xz , giving up
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/syslinux-common_2%3a4.06+dfsg-1.drbl1_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
Selecting previously deselected package drbl.
Unpacking drbl (from .../drbl_2.3.9-drbl1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/syslinux_2%3a4.06+dfsg-1.drbl1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/syslinux-common_2%3a4.06+dfsg-1.drbl1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
From what I have read, xz compression was not supported in dpkg 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.5 . Please let me know if you need any more information. My current production instance of DRBL is broken as a result of this. I am considering building DRBL from source or attempting to install a newer version of dpkg as a workaround. Thoughts?
Thanks for the bug report. This is fixed in the unstable release. However, due to another issue, DRBL is still not working on Ubuntu 10.04. Will do our best to fix that.
This issue should be fixed in the stable release. Please try it again and if any problem, please let us know. Thanks.
Steven.
The drbl stable package installed this morning without incident. I haven't yet done an imaging test run, but everything appears to be working. Thank you for this excellent software and the quick response!