Kyle
I've taken a look at the pre-installation script and it will fail with
an exit status of 1 if any queue files in /var/lib/mailman/qfiles.
I could re-produce this error message by creating a file in
/var/lib/mailman/qfiles - I was then presented with the option to
continue regardless or abort the installation.
Did you get any prompted during the upgrade about this directory
containing files? I got the following error message (and advice which
might help):
The directory /var/lib/mailman/qfiles contains files. It needs to be
empty for the upgrade to work properly. You can try to handle them by:
- Stop new messages from coming in (at the MTA level).
- Start a mailman queue runner: /etc/init.d/mailman start
- Let it run until all messages are handled.
If they don't all get handled in a timely manner, look at the logs
to try to understand why and solve the cause.
- Stop it: /etc/init.d/mailman stop
- Retry the upgrade.
- Let messages come in again.
You can also decide to simply remove the files, which will make
Mailman forget about (and lose) the corresponding emails.
.
If these files correspond to shunted messages, you have to either
delete them or unshunt them (with /var/lib/mailman/bin/unshunt).
Shunted messages are messages on which Mailman has already abandoned
any further processing because of an error condition, but that are
kept for admin review. You can use /var/lib/mailman/bin/show_qfiles to
examine the contents of the queues.
.
You have the option to continue installation regardless of this problem, at
the risk of losing the messages in question or breaking your Mailman setup.
Thanks
** Changed in: mailman (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/723891
Title:
package mailman 1:2.1.13-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new
pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
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