Package: courier-authdaemon Version: 0.62.2-1+b1 Severity: normal
When upgrading courier-authdaemon, aptitude returns an error (255) if courier-authdaemon is not running. Here is the output: The following packages will be upgraded: courier-authdaemon 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/7696B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Writing extended state information... Done (Reading database ... 262712 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace courier-authdaemon 0.62.2-1 (using .../courier-authdaemon_0.62.2-1+b1_i386.deb) ... Stopping Courier authentication services: authdaemond/var/run/courier/authdaemon/pid.lock: No such file or directory invoke-rc.d: initscript courier-authdaemon, action "stop" failed. dpkg: warning: old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... Stopping Courier authentication services: authdaemond/var/run/courier/authdaemon/pid.lock: No such file or directory invoke-rc.d: initscript courier-authdaemon, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/courier-authdaemon_0.62.2-1+b1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/courier-authdaemon_0.62.2-1+b1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: It would be preferable if the upgrade script could detect that courier-authdaemon is not running and continue with the upgrade. The workaround I've used is to start courier-authdaemon, then run the upgrade, then stop it. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) 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 courier-authdaemon depends on: ii courier-authlib 0.62.2-1+b1 Courier authentication library ii lsb-base 3.2-23 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip courier-authdaemon recommends no packages. courier-authdaemon suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
