package nginx-core 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[George Moustakas]

I'm going to install a new Packege that is not related with nginx and still nginx errors appear

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nginx-core 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.38-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 28 19:35:27 2016
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-26 (33 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1
 apt 1.2.10ubuntu1
SourcePackage: nginx
Title: package nginx-core 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-23 (5 days ago)

[Thomas Ward (teward)]

There's nothing here to determine why nginx failed to install - it *does* show as running. Nothing in the output suggested by the dpkg error, either, helps to debug this as well.

Best I can suggest is to try and install nginx separately, and then try and install your application. However, your history log shows that nginx *did* get run and tried to install, and nothing in the terminal log provides usable debug information here.

I'm marking this as Incomplete, until more useful debugging information can be made available.

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

I am curious to know what:

dpkg -l nginx\*

shows. The weird thing here is nginx *is* (or seems to be) running, while dpkg returned an error.

[George Moustakas (gmousta)]

The dpkg -l nginx\* shows:

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
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
un nginx <none> <none> (no description available)
ii nginx-common 1.10.0-0ubun all small, powerful, scalable web/pro
ii nginx-core 1.10.0-0ubun amd64 nginx web/proxy server (core vers
un nginx-doc <none> <none> (no description available)
un nginx-extras <none> <none> (no description available)
un nginx-full <none> <none> (no description available)
un nginx-light <none> <none> (no description available)

[C de-Avillez (hggdh2)]

this is interesting. Have you run 'sudo apt-get -f install'? If not, can you please run it and post/attach the output here?

[Bakró Nagy István (bakro-istvan)]

Hi i faced the same problem.
My solution was to stop apache server (which had the port80) and install it again

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[vivek prakash (vivekkprakkash)]

package nginx-core 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1