package irda-utils 0.9.18-7ubuntu2 failed to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 version

[Michael]

Binary package hint: irda-utils

irda-utils:
  Installed: 0.9.18-7ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.9.18-7ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.18-7ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

At the end of the upgrade from Gutsy (7.04) to Hardy (8.04) I got a message pop up that the upgrade failed due to irda-utils package. The overall upgrade of the system seems to have succeeded nevertheless:

$> lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

I actually failed to ever use this package. It was meant to be used with an irda enabled phone but I failed to set it up properly. So perhaps it was already broken in some way.

I guess this report is not much of help.. but I thought I'd better give it a try.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 24 20:00:24 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: irda-utils 0.9.18-7ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: irda-utils
Title: package irda-utils 0.9.18-7ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[dancer58 (dancer581)]

Have the same problem
I removed irda-utils and reinstalled but get the same error:

Setting up irda-utils (0.9.18-7ubuntu2) ...
udev active, devices will be created in /dev/.static/dev/
udev active, devices will be created in /dev/.static/dev/

************************************************************************
*
* The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used!
*
************************************************************************

usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | sNN kNN]
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
  -n: not really
  -f: force
dpkg: error processing irda-utils (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 irda-utils
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!