Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Dan,
On 12:11 Mon 03 Apr , Dan Urist wrote: > Package: puppet > Version: 4.8.2-3~bpo8+1 > Severity: important > > It appears that there is no check for a running puppet daemon in the > preinst phase of the package installation. The preinst phase should > check whether the puppet daemon is running and stop it, but apparently > it doesn't do that, so the upgrade fails at the end when it attempts > to start the puppet daemon since the old daemon is still running. If I > manually stop the daemon before upgrade, the upgrade proceeds without > error, and the puppet agent is started at the end of the process. I have an idea about what might be wrong, but just to make sure, which version are you upgrading from? I guess you're upgrading from Jessie's 3.7.2, correct? Regards, Apollon