package ejabberd (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[FRANZVALO1]

rare dependencies erlang-abi-b

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ejabberd (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-50.66~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt16
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-50-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.15
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 1 20:05:25 2015
DuplicateSignature: package:ejabberd:(not installed):subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-23 (161 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.4
 apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.10
SourcePackage: ejabberd
Title: package ejabberd (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Philipp Huebner (debalance-debian)]

On Debian, the adduser command doesn't error out if the user already exists, apparently this is different here.

As a workaround you can comment out the line in /var/lib/dpkg/info/ejabberd.postinst

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ejabberd - 17.08-3

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ejabberd (17.08-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Philipp Huebner ]
  * Replaced Build-Depends on dh-systemd with debhelper >= 9.20160709
  * Improved logrotate configuration (Closes: #876961)
  * Update it.po (Closes: #876389)
  * Update fr.po (Closes: #877290)

  [ Neil Castelino ]
  * Added notes to translators and about variable usage in debian/templates

 -- Philipp Huebner <email address hidden> Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:37:23 +0200