Confirmed. $ sudo apt-get install update-motd [sudo] password for arky: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done update-motd is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libio-compress-base-perl Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up update-motd (2.0-0ubuntu1) ... * Starting update-motd [2009-07-13 22:50:42] ERROR: Another instance is running [5060] invoke-rc.d: initscript update-motd, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing update-motd (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: update-motd E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
$ sudo /etc/init.d/update-motd stop * Stopping update-motd [ OK ] i...@karmic-kola:~$ sudo apt-get install update-motd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done update-motd is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libio-compress-base-perl Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up update-motd (2.0-0ubuntu1) ... * Starting update-motd [ OK ] -- package update-motd 2.0-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398646 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
