Problem during configuring (wrong path)

[Michael]

While updating from 14.04 to 16.04, I got error messaging that /usr/lib/utempter isn't existing. On my install (x64), I've only /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/utempter .

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andrey Bondarenko (abone)]

This is bug in libutempter0.postinst script

it should either check existence of /usr/lib/utempter directory or create it before changing ownership. Manual creation of the directory solves the issue:

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/utempter
sudo dpkg --configure libutempter0

Other question is why directory /usr/lib/utempter may not exist after package install?

[Andrey Bondarenko (abone)]

This bug may be related to bug 1508677.

Version 1.1.6 from 16.04 compiled with multiarch support, so utempter is installed into /usr/lib/<arch>/utempter not in /usr/lib/utempter.

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1542030

[Andrey Bondarenko (abone)]

The bug is fixed in Debian package version 1.1.6-3

[Peter Schüller (schueller-p)]

As a workaround to allow installation, I made a symlink:

# cd /usr/lib
# ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/utempter
# apt-get install libutempter0

-> installation can finish however it might be good to remove the symlink afterwards (?)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

This bug was fixed in the package libutempter - 1.1.6-3

---------------
libutempter (1.1.6-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload.
  * Drop the postinst script, the files that were getting chowned are in a
    different location now, no chown needed. (Closes: #814647) Thanks to
    Andreas Beckmann for reporting.

 -- Maximiliano Curia <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:47:33 +0100

libutempter (1.1.6-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload.
  * Merge with Ubuntu. (Closes: #812956)

 -- Maximiliano Curia <email address hidden> Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:43:36 +0100

libutempter (1.1.6-1ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Multiarchify the library packages.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 28 Jan 2016 03:34:45 +0100

[sandeep shetty (sandeep-netcore)]

thankyou so much, will check the same

*Regards, Sandeep Shetty netCORE Solution Pvt. Ltd. EMM Support*
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> wrote:

> This bug was fixed in the package libutempter - 1.1.6-3
>
> ---------------
> libutempter (1.1.6-3) unstable; urgency=medium
>
> * Team upload.
> * Drop the postinst script, the files that were getting chowned are in a
> different location now, no chown needed. (Closes: #814647) Thanks to
> Andreas Beckmann for reporting.
>
> -- Maximiliano Curia <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:47:33 +0100
>
> libutempter (1.1.6-2) unstable; urgency=medium
>
> * Team upload.
> * Merge with Ubuntu. (Closes: #812956)
>
> -- Maximiliano Curia <email address hidden> Tue, 09 Feb 2016 19:43:36 +0100
>
> libutempter (1.1.6-1ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium
>
> * Multiarchify the library packages.
>
> -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Thu, 28 Jan 2016 03:34:45 +0100
>
> ** Changed in: libutempter (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
>
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> Title:
> Problem during configuring (wrong path)
>
> Status in libutempter package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in libutempter package in Debian:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> While updating from 14.04 to 16.04, I got error messaging that
> /usr/lib/utempter isn't existing. On my install (x64), I've only
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/utempter .
>
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