Comment 149 for bug 659438

ok, noted!

thanks

On 4/8/12 8:34 AM, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> In Precise the issue doesn't appear since there is a race between the
> simulate() and the run() method which eats the exception. This race
> situation has been fixed in trunk recently that hasn't been uploaded
> yet.
>
> Furthermore aptdaemon trunk now catches the exception in the
> apt.cache.Cache.required_download call and lets the transaction fail
> with an ERROR_INCOMPLETE_INSTALL. So we won't get any bug reports of
> this anymore - although the issue isn't fixed on the lower level
> (debconf/apt).
>
> Unfortunately software-center doesn't handle the
> ERROR_INCOMPLETE_INSTALL correctly yet. It just displays the error
> message but doesn't offer to run the FixIncompleteInstall() method of
> aptdaemon which would basically run "dpkg --configure -a" and fix the
> system.
>
> Additionally the current error message doesn't contain any hind to run
> sudo dpkg --configure -a manually.
>
> But it seems to be a first step to resolve the issue. I will try to
> create a working patch for s-c in the next days.
>