package freeradius-ldap 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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Setting up freeradius-krb5 (2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu5) ...
initctl: Unknown job: freeradius
reload: Unknown job: freeradius
invoke-rc.d: initscript freeradius, action "force-reload" failed.
dpkg: error processing freeradius-krb5 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up freeradius-ldap (2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu5) ...
initctl: Unknown job: freeradius
reload: Unknown job: freeradius
invoke-rc.d: initscript freeradius, action "force-reload" failed.
dpkg: error processing freeradius-ldap (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up freeradius-mysql (2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu5) ...
initctl: Unknown job: freeradius
reload: Unknown job: freeradius
invoke-rc.d: initscript freeradius, action "force-reload" failed.
dpkg: error processing freeradius-mysql (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up freeradius-postgresql (2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu5) ...
initctl: Unknown job: freeradius
reload: Unknown job: freeradius
invoke-rc.d: initscript freeradius, action "force-reload" failed.
dpkg: error processing freeradius-postgresql (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Setting up freeradius-dbg (2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu5) ...
Setting up freeradius-iodbc (2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu5) ...
initctl: Unknown job: freeradius
reload: Unknown job: freeradius
invoke-rc.d: initscript freeradius, action "force-reload" failed.
dpkg: error processing freeradius-iodbc (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 freeradius-krb5
 freeradius-ldap
 freeradius-mysql
 freeradius-postgresql
 freeradius-iodbc
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: freeradius-ldap 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-13.20-generic 3.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Nov 9 13:11:03 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:freeradius-ldap:2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu5:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-11-06 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: freeradius
Title: package freeradius-ldap 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Yolanda Robla (yolanda.robla)]

Thanks for reporting this. Can you check what version of freeradius are you using? If it's an older version, please can you try updating it and then install the related packages?

[Qiu Yu (unicell)]

Just run into the same problem. My package version listed as below for your reference. Thanks!

 $ sudo dpkg -l "*freeradius*"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==========================================-==========================-==========================-==========================================================================================
ii freeradius 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu6 i386 high-performance and highly configurable RADIUS server
ii freeradius-common 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu6 all FreeRADIUS common files
un freeradius-krb5 <none> <none> (no description available)
un freeradius-ldap <none> <none> (no description available)
iF freeradius-mysql 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu6 i386 MySQL module for FreeRADIUS server
un freeradius-postgresql <none> <none> (no description available)
ii freeradius-utils 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu6 i386 FreeRADIUS client utilities
ii libfreeradius2 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu6 i386 FreeRADIUS shared library

[Qiu Yu (unicell)]

Seems invoking initscript through invoke-rc.d will trigger this issue, while manually call /etc/init.d/freeradius force-reload everything's fine.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/freeradius force-reload
 * Reloading FreeRADIUS daemon freeradius
   ...done.

$ sudo invoke-rc.d freeradius force-reload
reload: Unknown instance:
invoke-rc.d: initscript freeradius, action "force-reload" failed.

And I solved my problem by a clean removal and re-install. BTW, I met this issue after upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04. Could be caused by some legacy env conflict, I guess.
$sudo apt-get purge freeradius-common freeradius freeradius-mysql
$sudo apt-get install freeradius-common freeradius freeradius-mysql

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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