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and subject line The current behaviour is correct
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Package: smartmontools
Version: 5.37-6
Severity: normal
I think, smartmontools post-install should not fail, if the /etc/init.d/
script fails for whatever reason... (Correct me, if you are of another opinion)
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0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Setting up smartmontools (5.37-6) ...
Enabling S.M.A.R.T..../dev/sda...done.
Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon: smartd failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript smartmontools, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing smartmontools (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
smartmontools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up smartmontools (5.37-6) ...
Enabling S.M.A.R.T..../dev/sda...done.
Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon: smartd failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript smartmontools, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing smartmontools (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
smartmontools
<<snap>>
-- Package-specific info:
Ouput of /usr/share/bug/smartmontools:
# CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL is not set
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages smartmontools depends on:
ii debianutils 2.27 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.6.1-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.2-3 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.2.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
Versions of packages smartmontools recommends:
ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20071017cvs-2 A simple mail user agent
-- no debconf information
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Hi Tobias,
I think the way the update works now is o.k. - otherwise the admin would
have a hard time to notice whats wrong - you can select not to start
smartd vi /etc/default/smartmontools.
Cheers,
-- Guido
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