Wow. A 6+ year old bug in basic network connectivity. My home router
runs DD-WRT with DNSMasq enabled which ...is designed to provide DNS
and, optionally, DHCP, to a small network. It can serve the names of
local machines which are not in the global DNS.
But DNSMasq was unable to resolve a
Public bug reported:
this looks similar to several other bugs on Launchpad, but they seem to be from
slightly different versions.
I'm running a standard install of Karmic and tried to install openssh server
both through Synaptic and from the command line:
sudo apt-get install openssh-server
** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36067930/Dependencies.txt
** Attachment added: Dmesg.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36067931/Dmesg.txt
** Attachment added: DpkgTerminalLog.txt
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36067932/DpkgTerminalLog.txt
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package
$ ls -al /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1733 2009-10-29 11:02 /etc/passwd
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package openssh-server 1:5.1p1-6ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/488293
You received this bug
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 432964 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432964
some more data:
$ ls -l /etc/{passwd,shadow}*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1733 2009-10-29 11:02 /etc/passwd
-rw--- 1 root root 1733 2009-10-29 11:02 /etc/passwd-
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1754 2009-10-29
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 432964 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432964
removing the lock files using the command below allowed me to complete a
reinstall using Synaptic:
$ sudo rm /etc/*.lock
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package openssh-server 1:5.1p1-6ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
** Changed in: tftp-hpa (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid = Confirmed
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package tftpd-hpa 0.43-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new
pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/147520
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This seems to have caused my upgrade to fail as well. I set the bug to
confirmed because I just experienced it upgrading from 9.10 to 10.04.
I'll try the workaround above. See also: Bug #550064
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package tftpd-hpa 0.43-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new
pre-removal script
