Package: nscd Version: 2.3.2.ds1-10 Severity: minor
On an upgrade (which included a new nscd package) a while ago, nscd failed to start in its postinst, causing the postinst to fail. I didn't look into the problem, and hoped it would go away the next time I ran aptitude. In fact, the postinst continued to fail every time I did any package upgrades. (But I never got a new nscd in this period.) It seems that the postinst will always fail when nscd is already running. Specifically, because it uses "set -e" and calls /etc/init.d/nscd start, which calls start-stop-daemon, which fails when nscd is running. I don't know how I got into the state where nscd was running during the postinst, but since this resulted in annoying behavior, I thought it might be considered a bug in nscd. I looked briefly at policy and some other packages, and I could not decide exactly where the fault lay. Maybe you'll have a better idea. I was able to work around the problem by stopping nscd, then running dpkg --configure --pending. This time, the postinst completed successfully. Andrew -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux techloaner2 2.4.22techloaner2+xpcmcia #1 Wed Dec 24 13:07:19 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US Versions of packages nscd depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
