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Hans Kristian Moen
Hans Kristian Moen

Reputation: 31

pypy apt corruption - circular dependency?

I'm having a strange problem I can't get myself out of. Any time I try to do something in apt, I get this problem Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 185 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up pypy (5.4.1+dfsg-1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/pypy.postinst: 39: /var/lib/dpkg/info/pypy.postinst: pypycompile: not found dpkg: error processing package pypy (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pypy-pkg-resources: pypy-pkg-resources depends on pypy; however: Package pypy is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package pypy-pkg-resources (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pypy-setuptools: pypy-setuptools depends on pypy-pkg-resources (= 28.0.0-1); however: Package pypy-pkg-resources is not configured yet. pypy-setuptools depends on pypy; however: Package pypy is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package pypy-setuptools (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: pypy pypy-pkg-resources pypy-setuptools

I think the root cause problem is pypy: $ sudo dpkg --configure pypy Setting up pypy (5.4.1+dfsg-1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/pypy.postinst: 39: /var/lib/dpkg/info/pypy.postinst: pypycompile: not found dpkg: error processing package pypy (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: pypy

but not sure how to dig myself out of this one, as I can't reinstall, remove, or seem to do anything with it:

$ sudo apt-get remove pypy Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: pypy pypy-pkg-resources pypy-setuptools 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 185 not upgraded. 3 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 34.2 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 78437 files and directories currently installed.) Removing pypy-setuptools (28.0.0-1) ... Removing pypy-pkg-resources (28.0.0-1) ... Removing pypy (5.4.1+dfsg-1) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/pypy.prerm: 18: /var/lib/dpkg/info/pypy.prerm: pypyclean: not found dpkg: error processing package pypy (--remove): subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 127 Errors were encountered while processing: pypy E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Anyone have any ideas?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 561

Answers (2)

Zzyzx Wolfe
Zzyzx Wolfe

Reputation: 131

Actually, it seems like the problem is that for some reason, Debian isn't creating a symlink to pypy. Can easily be fixed by running sudo ln -s /usr/lib/pypy/bin/pypy-c /usr/bin/pypy and then run sudo apt-get install pypy again, and all should be well with the world!

Hope this helps, if not you, somebody else who is Googling this.

Cheers, Zzyzx

Upvotes: 3

Hans Kristian Moen
Hans Kristian Moen

Reputation: 31

If anyone ever hits this again, here's the solution I found in the end:

  1. Unblock the issue of not being able to do dpkg --config pypy by updating /usr/bin/pypycompile to use #!/usr/binpython as interpreter rather than the #!/usr/bin/pypy
  2. Update /usr/lib/pypy/runtime.d/public_modules.rtupdate to not attempt to run pypyclean

So in other words, the solution was to just remove or disable any post install scripts that prevented completion.

Upvotes: 0

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