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volumeid: Syntax Error in post-installation script

Bug #146903 reported by gelbehexe on 2007-09-29

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #146513: package volumeid 113-0ubuntu13 failed to install/upgrade: . Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	udev (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: volumeid

While upgrading package volumeid I got the following message (It's an German installation):
Richte volumeid ein (113-0ubuntu13) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/volumeid.postinst: 56: Syntax error: ")" unexpected (expecting ";;")
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von volumeid (--configure):
Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 2 zurück
dpkg: Abhängigkeitsprobleme verhindern Konfiguration von udev:
udev hängt ab von volumeid (= 113-0ubuntu13); aber:
Paket volumeid ist noch nicht konfiguriert.

Inserting the missing ";;" by hand in line 56 and apt-get upgrade fixed it for me.

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ceb (cebin) wrote on 2007-09-29:

I encountered the same issue running the update manager (It took a little digging to find). It resulted in the following message on subsequent runs of the update manager:

Could not calculate the upgrade

A unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.

Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the following error message:
'E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.'
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Could someone please provide a detailed description of the workaround described above?

Thank you.

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Albert Damen (albrt) wrote on 2007-09-29:

This was fixed earlier today. You should soon be able to download the correct package.

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ceb (cebin) wrote on 2007-09-29:

I see the workaround, it is relatively trivial. For anyone else who encounters this bug, edit the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/volumeid.postinst and insert a newline at 56, adding only

;;

The file should now read:

     50 echo "$LINE"
     51 continue
     52 ;;
     53 /dev/mapper/*_crypt)# DM-Crypt devices
     54 echo "$LINE"
     55 continue
     56 ;; # ADD THIS LINE
     57 /dev/disk/*) # Already mounting by particulars
     58 echo "$LINE"
     59 continue
     60 ;;
     61 /dev/fd[0-9]*)