Public bug reported: I wanted to mount an NFS disk in the LiveCD, so I tried a mount command; that didn't work. Turned out that the NFS support isn't even in the livecd, so I had to "apt-get install nfs-common". This failed, even immediately after "apt-get update":
# apt-get install nfs-common Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libgssglue1 libnfsidmap2 libtirpc1 rpcbind The following NEW packages will be installed: libgssglue1 libnfsidmap2 libtirpc1 nfs-common rpcbind 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 516 not upgraded. Need to get 232 kB/410 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,296 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main nfs-common i386 1:1.2.5-3ubuntu3 [232 kB] Fetched 232 kB in 1s (119 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package libgssglue1. (Reading database ... 136122 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libgssglue1 (from .../libgssglue1_0.3-4_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libtirpc1. Unpacking libtirpc1 (from .../libtirpc1_0.2.2-5_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package rpcbind. Unpacking rpcbind (from .../rpcbind_0.2.0-7ubuntu1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libnfsidmap2. Unpacking libnfsidmap2 (from .../libnfsidmap2_0.25-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package nfs-common. Unpacking nfs-common (from .../nfs-common_1%3a1.2.5-3ubuntu3_i386.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... Setting up libgssglue1 (0.3-4) ... Setting up libtirpc1 (0.2.2-5) ... Setting up rpcbind (0.2.0-7ubuntu1) ... Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/rpcbind ... start: Unknown job: portmap invoke-rc.d: initscript portmap, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing rpcbind (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Setting up libnfsidmap2 (0.25-1ubuntu1) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nfs-common: nfs-common depends on rpcbind (>= 0.2.0-6ubuntu1); however: Package rpcbind is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing nfs-common (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure. Errors were encountered while processing: rpcbind nfs-common E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: rpcbind 0.2.0-7ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic-pae 3.2.12 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic-pae i686 ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 CasperVersion: 1.312 Date: Tue Apr 10 08:28:12 2012 LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120328) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: rpcbind UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: rpcbind (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/977847 Title: won't install in livecd, fails to configure To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rpcbind/+bug/977847/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
