package clamav-milter 0.97.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[William Vincent]

update will not install

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: clamav-milter 0.97.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 20 17:22:39 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
SourcePackage: clamav
Title: package clamav-milter 0.97.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-22 (59 days ago)

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

I was unable to reproduce this with:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ rv=0.97.3+dfsg-2.1ubuntu1;
$ sudo apt-get install clamav-{milter,base,freshclam,daemon}=$rv --assume-yes
$ sudo apt-get install clamav-milter

The reporter shows upgrade from '0.97.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.1' to '0.97.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.2'.
The dpkg terminal log shows:
 Setting up clamav-freshclam (0.97.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.2) ...
 Setting up clamav-daemon (0.97.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.2) ...
 Setting up clamav-milter (0.97.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.1) ...

Note, the clamav-milter is of 12.04.1.

Perhaps this is a result of an update being done when archive was in a strange state? (ie, why would the upgrade have pulled in 12.04.1 and for clamav-milter).

I was not able to reproduce. William, is there any information about your system you think might be useful?

It appears the DpkgTerminalLog.gz is somehow missing some data.
I have in my test output:

[Scott Moser (smoser)]

Note, you can probably get around this issue by uninstalling and re-installing clamav.
sorry for the inconvienence.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

There was a regression in 0.97.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.1 that prevented it from being installed properly on new installations. 0.97.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.2 was quickly released to solve the issue. You may need to uninstall clamav completely before attempting to install 0.97.5+dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.2.

Although, looking at the DpkgTerminalLog, that may not be the exact issue you are having, as it would seem clamav-milter is failing to start. I'm not quite sure why it didn't get updated at the same time the other packages did.

Could you try removing clamav completely and reinstaling it?

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

I suspect this might be an artifact of the clamav-base configure bug that was
fixed in 12.04.2. In it is that, clamav-milter would have failed configure too.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Wiiliam, please make sure to update to dfsg-1ubuntu0.12.04.2 and try again. I'm closing this as Invalid, if you try that version and it still seems broken, then feel free to re-open this bug report or file a new one.