Pkg xen devel - Nov 2006 - Bug#398372: xen-utils-common: installation fails: ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/udev/rules.d/z60_xen-backend.rules' to `../xen-backend.rules': No such file or directory

Package: xen-utils-common
Version: 3.0.3-0-1
Severity: serious
Justification: makes package uninstallable
Usertags: grid5000

Hi,

During a piuparts run over all the packages in etch, I ran into a
problem with your package:

Setting up xen-utils-common (3.0.3-0-1) ...
ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/udev/rules.d/z60_xen-backend.rules' to
`../xen-backend.rules': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing xen-utils-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xen-utils-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The full log is available from 
http://ox.blop.info/bazaar/buildlogs/20061113/

The piuparts run was done on about 40 AMD64 nodes of the Grid'5000
platform, using a clean chroot containing an etch i386 environment
(not unstable).  Internet was not accessible from the build systems.

About Grid'5000:
Grid'5000 is an highly reconfigurable experimental Grid platform
gathering 9 sites and featuring a total of 5000 CPUs. It serves as a
testbed for research in Grid Computing. See https://www.grid5000.fr/
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forcemerge 393968 398372
thanks

Ooops, ugly duplicate. Sorry.

Regarding the way to reproduce this (Re: #398372), it is quite easy:
udev is priority important, not required, so you can't assume that it is
available on the system if you don't depend on it.

Installing the package without udev installed reproduces the failure.

Lucas

Your message dated Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:32:27 -0800
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and subject line Bug#398372: fixed in xen-common 3.0.3-0-2
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