package trousers 0.3.11.2-1 failed to install/upgrade

[Teddy]

From update manager. Don't have any futher explanation.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: trousers 0.3.11.2-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu May 1 15:09:22 2014
DuplicateSignature: package:trousers:0.3.11.2-1:
ErrorMessage:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-26 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: trousers
Title: package trousers 0.3.11.2-1 failed to install/upgrade
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Teddy (ted-saker-law)]

Any progress?

[Rich Evans (o0rebelious0o)]

I can see the issue on Ubuntu 14.04. This is being cause by incorrect udev rules for the /dev/tpm0 node. Trousers init should change ownership to tss:tss of /dev/tpm0 but is failing to do so. Worked around by:

Attempt to install trousers and it fails:
sudo apt-get install trousers
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
trousers is already the newest version.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Setting up trousers (0.3.11.2-1) ...
 * Starting Trusted Computing daemon tcsd [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript trousers, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package trousers (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 137
Errors were encountered while processing:
 trousers
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Manually take ownership of /dev/tpm0:
sudo chown tss /dev/tpm0
sudo chgrp tss /dev/tpm0

Force reinstallation of trousers and it succeeds:
sudo apt-get install -f trousers
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
trousers is already the newest version.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Setting up trousers (0.3.11.2-1) ...
 * Starting Trusted Computing daemon tcsd [ OK ]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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