New dpkg causing issues?

[ScislaC]

I was upgrading packages in synaptic and synaptic conked out right after it did it's thing on the dpkg 1.16.3 package.

Now, it says wine1.4 is broken, and it refuses to even let me remove it. Synaptic keeps failing with the following:


dpkg: error: file triggers record mentions illegal package name `libglib2.0-0' (for interest in file `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules'): ambiguous package name 'libglib2.0-0' with more than one installed instance
W: Waited for dpkg --assert-multi-arch but it wasn't there - dpkgGo (10: No child processes)
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: error: file triggers record mentions illegal package name `libglib2.0-0' (for interest in file `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules'): ambiguous package name 'libglib2.0-0' with more than one installed instance

Anyone have any thoughts?

[diesch]

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1015329

[sammiev]

I was upgrading packages in synaptic and synaptic conked out right after it did it's thing on the dpkg 1.16.3 package.

Now, it says wine1.4 is broken, and it refuses to even let me remove it. Synaptic keeps failing with the following:


dpkg: error: file triggers record mentions illegal package name `libglib2.0-0' (for interest in file `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules'): ambiguous package name 'libglib2.0-0' with more than one installed instance
W: Waited for dpkg --assert-multi-arch but it wasn't there - dpkgGo (10: No child processes)
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: error: file triggers record mentions illegal package name `libglib2.0-0' (for interest in file `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules'): ambiguous package name 'libglib2.0-0' with more than one installed instance

Anyone have any thoughts?

Dido, same here on updating using
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

[pferraro]

Try this:

sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/triggers/File

Replace the following lines:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules libglib2.0-0
/usr/lib/gio/modules libglib2.0-0
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas libglib2.0-0

With this:

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules libglib2.0-0:amd64
/usr/lib/gio/modules libglib2.0-0:amd64
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas libglib2.0-0:amd64

Then run:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

[ScislaC]

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1015329

Thank you! I ran the commands recommended in the report and now it's fixed (I then downgraded dpkg in the meantime).

[kevpan815]

No problems here installing Ubuntu Mainline Kernel 3.5.0-999 with DPKG today.