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openmpi pulls non-installable blcr-dkms as dependency: breaks lucid->maverick upgrade

Bug #667354 reported by Felipe Figueiredo
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Software Updater
Invalid
Undecided
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openmpi (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

In my workstation the upgrade path from Lucid to Maverick was broken by an unexpected need to install blcr-dkms, which is broken in maverick (Bug 555729). It was pulled from the following dependency chain:

* tree-ppuzzle was installed in lucid. Its maverick version depends on openmpi-bin
* openmpi-bin recommends openmpi-checkpoint
* openmpi-checkpoint depends on libcr0
* libcr0 recommends blcr-dkms, which was blacklisted in dist upgrade, as per Bug 555729.

None of the above packages was installed in lucid, previously to the dist-upgrade, except for tree-ppuzzle. Removing tree-ppuzzle was the only way found to dist-upgrade.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: openmpi-bin (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 27 14:10:27 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=pt_BR.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openmpi

Revision history for this message
Felipe Figueiredo (philsf) wrote :

This issue was initially described here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blcr/+bug/555729/comments/20

And the files requested were also posted in that bug report. Here are their links:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blcr/+bug/555729/+attachment/1713054/+files/apt.log
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blcr/+bug/555729/+attachment/1713055/+files/main.log

summary: - openmpi pulls non-installable blcr-dkms as dependency
+ openmpi pulls non-installable blcr-dkms as dependency: breaks
+ lucid->maverick upgrade
Revision history for this message
Felipe Figueiredo (philsf) wrote :

There's also the problem that the dist-upgrade aborted when stomped with the blacklisted package, so I'm adding update-manager to the bug.

Maybe it could hold, or even remove the offending package (in this case, tree-ppuzzle)?

Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

thanks for your report.

Changed in openmpi (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
Changed in update-manager:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
Revision history for this message
Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

setting to high because users of openmpi can't upgrade to maverick.

Felipe Figueiredo (philsf)
Changed in openmpi (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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