title 680419 uptimed fails to configure on upgrade if config file is missing severity 680419 normal thanks
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Ian Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: uptimed > Version: 1:0.3.17-3.1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > A recent upgrade attempt failed with: > Preparing to replace uptimed 1:0.3.17-3 (using > .../uptimed_1%3a0.3.17-3.1_amd64.deb) ... > [...] > Setting up uptimed (1:0.3.17-3.1) ... > /var/lib/dpkg/info/uptimed.postinst: line 39: /etc/uptimed.conf: No such > file or directory > dpkg: error processing uptimed (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status > 1 > > and indeed I found that /etc/uptimed.conf did not exist. However I did > have /etc/uptimed.conf.dpkg-old. I moved it to /etc/uptimed.conf and ran "dpkg > --configure -a" which succeeded. Now I have: Hi I can't reproduce your bug unless I manually remove /etc/uptimed.conf first. I don't know how much of a bug it is to have upgrade configure fail on missing config file. Maybe it should fail gracefully. Nonetheless, it's possible to apt-get remove the package anyway and install it back again afterwards. Since this is not a typical use case of the software and since it doesn't affect the normal upgrade path, I'm downgrading this bug to normal. Thanks -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
