package nginx-core 1.10.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Vishal N Sanjaria]

How to solve it?

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: nginx-core 1.10.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-28.32~16.04.2-generic 4.10.17
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-28-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Aug 4 14:09:52 2017
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-21 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.2
 apt 1.2.24
SourcePackage: nginx
Title: package nginx-core 1.10.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ray Haleblian (ray-haleblian)]

Running under VMware Fusion; problem dialog appeared on guest resumption.

[Thomas Ward (teward)]

Your core issue according to your logs is that you have bad configurations.

Aug 04 14:09:52 tss4 nginx[18947]: nginx: [emerg] "listen" directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:1
Aug 04 14:09:52 tss4 nginx[18947]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
Aug 04 14:09:52 tss4 systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Aug 04 14:09:52 tss4 systemd[1]: Failed to start A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.
-- Subject: Unit nginx.service has failed

These logs indicate your NGINX configuration has things in the wrong locations, which means your config is busted. That's less a package bug and more an issue with your configuration. (Which means I am closing this as "Invalid" as it's a configuration-level issue and not a package bug).