** Description changed: Was updating via update manager, after new installation when this error occured. Binary package hint: system-tools-backends on an elitegroup AM2+ motherboard with AMD Athlon 64 X2 BE-2400 processor, 4gb of ram ProblemType: Package Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: system-tools-backends 2.6.0-1ubuntu1.1 SourcePackage: system-tools-backends Title: package system-tools-backends 2.6.0-1ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64 ***TEMPORARY WORKAROUND*** After the upgrade has failed, you will get an error every time you run dpkg or apt-get saying that system-tools-backends is not configured. "sudo dpkg --configure -a" will not fix this. To recover, please perform the following 2 steps: 1) sudo invoke-rc.d system-tools-backends stop 2) sudo dpkg --configure -a + + ***TEST CASE FOR SRU*** + 1) With current version (2.6.0-1ubuntu1.1) of system-tools-backends installed, open up 2 terminals. + 2) In the first terminal, type "users-admin", but don't press enter to run it yet. + 3) In the second terminal, run "sudo apt-get install --reinstall system-tools-backends". + 4) As soon as this line appears in the second terminal, hit enter in the first terminal to run users-admin: "* Stopping System Tools Backends system-tools-backends" + + The reinstall will fail. Once this has happened follow the workaround + above to recover, then upgrade to 2.6.0-1ubuntu1.2. + + Once upgraded, repeat steps 1 - 4, and note that the reinstall never + fails.
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