Hendrik Boom wrote on 02.01.2018 03:49: > lprng is only partially installed after upgrade. Aptitude and apt keep > telling me this. However, it seems to work fine, and I have no problems > talking to my postscript laser printer. > > lprng's line in interactive aptitude is: > > Ch lprng 3.8.B-2.1 3.8.B-2.1 > > on trying to clear its status by an explicit install, it appears not to > be able to 'start' it: > > root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/printme# aptitude install lprng > The following partially installed packages will be configured: > lprng > No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. > Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. > Setting up lprng (3.8.B-2.1) ... > invoke-rc.d: initscript lprng, action "start" failed. > dpkg: error processing package lprng (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status > 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > lprng > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > Setting up lprng (3.8.B-2.1) ... > invoke-rc.d: initscript lprng, action "start" failed. > dpkg: error processing package lprng (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status > 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > lprng > > root@notlookedfor:/home/hendrik/printme# > > > Any ideas?
Lprng installs and configures fine on my ascii VM (after removing cups-bsd and cups-client, BTW.) * Did any relevant messages end up in the system log? * Did you try to completely purge and then reinstall the package? * There's only a few places where the /etc/init.d/lprng script can exit with a code different from 0 upon start. Maybe you could try manually executing those parts of the script to check which one actually fails? E.g.: #test -f /usr/sbin/lpd || test -d /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lprng || exit 5 Going by your recent slew of problem reports I cannot help the impression your system may be hosed in a rather peculiar way. Best regards Urban -- Sapere aude! _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
