On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 06:14:26PM -0500, Gordon Dickens wrote: > Package: mailman3-web > Version: 0+20200530-2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > I performed a distribution upgrade from Debian 10 Buster (which runs mailman > 3.2.1) to Debian 11 Bullseye (which runs mailman 3.3.1) with the command > "apt-get full-upgrade -y" and everything apparently worked properly except at > the end of the upgrade when the following error dialog was generated by the > mailman3-web and mailman3-full post-installation scripts: > > Setting up mailman3-web (0+20200530-2) ... > Determining localhost credentials from /etc/mysql/debian.cnf: succeeded. > dbconfig-common: writing config to /etc/dbconfig-common/mailman3-web.conf > dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password > sed: -e expression #2, char 77: unterminated `s' command > dpkg: error processing package mailman3-web (--configure): > installed mailman3-web package post-installation script subprocess returned > error exit status 1 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mailman3-full: > mailman3-full depends on mailman3-web; however: > Package mailman3-web is not configured yet. > > dpkg: error processing package mailman3-full (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > Errors were encountered while processing: > mailman3-web > mailman3-full > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > <snip> > > So, I am now stuck <snip> > > Does anybody have any idea how to fix this? I would very much appreciate > some suggestions. >
Not a fix, but a _very_ _dirty_ workaround: sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/mailman3-web.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/mailman3-web.postinst.disabled (Only do this if everything else failed.) After that, try the install again by running sudo apt-get -f install . Your can now do dpkg/apt stuff again. However, you'll have to manually execute all the needed things /var/lib/dpkg/info/mailman3-web.postinst was trying to achieve: have a look at that script. HTH, Bye, Joost
