Bug#1124940: W: Tried to start delayed item http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-proposed-updates/main amd64 fonts-opensymbol all 4:102.12+LibO25.2.3-2+deb13u3, but failed

Rene Engelhard <[email protected]> Wed, 7 Jan 2026 17:30:19 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.apt.devel
Organization Debian Project
Message-ID <d1fb6887-f8cf-4456-875a-f15a8975587b__34496.6714548477$1767803489$gmane$org@debian.org>
Hi,

Am 07.01.26 um 17:17 schrieb Thorsten Glaser:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.22.21
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
>
> After an update within trixie, with p-u enabled, I get an endless loop of:
>
> W: Tried to start delayed item http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-proposed-updates/main amd64 fonts-opensymbol all 4:102.12+LibO25.2.3-2+deb13u3, but failed
>
> I have to manually ^C this.
>
> As etckeeper has already committed at that point, I think it’s dpkg,
> but may be apt as well, please reassign as suitable.
apt, I guess. You are not the fist who noticed that, that has been happening since long, was even asked about on #-devel etc.
>   Also Cc’ing SRM
> and maintainer of the package.

Which happens here and then on any random package. Neither is a source of it.

This is not a libreoffice problem and this is completely obvious. It just happens here on a libreoffice package.


Regards,

Rene