package tor 0.1.2.17-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Arlos]

Binary package hint: tor

Have been running 7.10 Beta, and doing regular package updates for couple months now. Had 288? updates to install, I had waited a day because of a notice saying some packages were not authorized, canceled out and waited. Used sudo apt-get update per instructions in a forum, then clicked the regular update icon, with no non-authorized notice. After letting it download and install, I had a crash report detected. TOR update error: "E: tor: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1"

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 5 16:20:51 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: tor 0.1.2.17-1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: tor
Title: package tor 0.1.2.17-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux Arlos-Ubuntu 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:11:30 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Here is the error:

Setting up tor (0.1.2.17-1) ...
debian-tor uid check: ok
debian-tor homedir check: ok
Raising maximum number of filedescriptors (ulimit -n) to 8192.
Starting tor daemon: tor...
Oct 05 16:20:51.873 [notice] Tor v0.1.2.17. This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity.
Oct 05 16:20:51.876 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.3b using method epoll. Good.
Oct 05 16:20:51.876 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Oct 05 16:20:51.876 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 192.168.0.1:9100
Oct 05 16:20:51.876 [warn] Could not bind to 192.168.0.1:9100: Cannot assign requested address
Oct 05 16:20:51.876 [notice] Closing partially-constructed listener Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Oct 05 16:20:51.876 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind one of the listener ports.
Oct 05 16:20:51.876 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
invoke-rc.d: initscript tor, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing tor (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Orion (lafoudre)]

I have the same bug:

***@****-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Setting up tor (0.2.0.34-1~intrepid+1) ...
Raising maximum number of filedescriptors (ulimit -n) to 32768.
Starting tor daemon: tor...
Jun 16 20:35:57.267 [notice] Tor v0.2.0.34 (r18423). This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux i686)
Jun 16 20:35:57.269 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.3e using method epoll. Good.
Jun 16 20:35:57.269 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
Jun 16 20:35:57.269 [warn] Could not bind to 127.0.0.1:9050: Address already in use. Is Tor already running?
Jun 16 20:35:57.269 [warn] Failed to parse/validate config: Failed to bind one of the listener ports.
Jun 16 20:35:57.269 [err] Reading config failed--see warnings above.
invoke-rc.d: initscript tor, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing tor (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tor-geoipdb:
 tor-geoipdb depends on tor (>= 0.2.0.34-1~intrepid+1); however:
  Package tor is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing tor-geoipdb (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 tor
 tor-geoipdb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Runa A. Sandvik (runasand)]

@Orion: it seems like something is wrong with your tor config and that is why the installation fails. Could you paste the contents of the configuration file here?

[Orion (lafoudre)]

Now it's work but i have reinstall ubuntu totaly

[jb (tigergrr)]

i had the same error message as Orion but with a newer version of tor-geoipdb. when update manager attempted to do the upgrade i was running Tor including a relay node at the time so i used Vidalia to shut down Tor. i then opened a terminal and did the sudo apt-get update then sudo apt-get upgrade and here was the result:

sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up tor (0.2.1.21-1~karmic+1) ...
Raising maximum number of filedescriptors (ulimit -n) to 16384.
Starting tor daemon: tor...
Jan 04 20:51:55.333 [notice] Tor v0.2.1.21. This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux i686)
Jan 04 20:51:55.337 [notice] Initialized libevent version 1.4.11-stable using method epoll. Good.
Jan 04 20:51:55.337 [notice] Opening Socks listener on 127.0.0.1:9050
done.

Setting up tor-geoipdb (0.2.1.21-1~karmic+1) ...

[Jacob Appelbaum (jacob-appelbaum)]

Is this bug still relevant?