On Wed, 07 Sep 2016, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > I have mixed wheezy/jessie system. When tried to upgrade cmake from > jessie, apt pulled other packages including dpkg which gave error > during configure: [...] > dpkg (subprocess): cannot set security execution context for maintainer > script: Invalid argument > dpkg: error processing package dpkg (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 > Errors were encountered while processing: > dpkg
You have selinux enabled, and for whatever reason, setting the appropriate security context for the maintainer script, likely because you haven't upgraded refpolicy to properly support dpkg_script_t or other set up the selinux policy correctly. Fix that, and you should be able to complete the install. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. -- G. K. Chesterton "Illustrated London News (1924-04-19)"