package openssh-server 1:4.7p1-8ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade:

[kotuku]

1. Ran Update Manager... it suggested update to Heron
2. All ran okay to point where it arrived at samba where it listed some choices...
3. I chose to open shell and have a look... it opened in the terminal
4. I thought better of it and EXITed
5. Not a good scheme it seems ... several error messages but thought I'd better let the thing continue... which it did.
6. After restarting.... Package Problem alert "Sorry, the package "xserver-xorg" failed to install or upgrade"
7. That's all there is to it... from memory.

Further to below:
1. Ubuntu 8.04
2. sorry..
3 & 4 as above

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 14 10:08:31 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: openssh-server 1:4.7p1-8ubuntu1.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: openssh
Title: package openssh-server 1:4.7p1-8ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Michael, could you help debug this? There isn't enough information in the report for me to do so, and I'm not quite sure what to ask for.

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

Could you post the content of the log files from the upgrade ? You can find them in /var/log/dist-upgrade/.

[kotuku (patrick-lollback-hotmail)]

Sorry guys... in the attached: apt.log, main.log, main_pre_req.log and term.log from directory /var/log/dist-upgrade/.

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

Thanks for you log files. There are some error messages, but openssh-server was successfully upgraded. I've seen similar bug reports with the samba package, which is also interacting with the end user on upgrades.

[Mathias Gug (mathiaz)]

Setting to incomplete - needs a test case to reproduce it.

[kotuku (patrick-lollback-hotmail)]

Thanks guys - as you say the upgrade appears to have worked and the response from the 'team' unbelievable . I suppose there are several things I take from this experience;
1. If the process of updating is still running even with 'error messages' - let it.
2. Even while updating I had access to Firefox to 'search' for 'now what...?'
3. If only the process of installing WinXP SP3 were 1% as pleasant/reliable as this... (sorry...)

Thanks again

[Jayson Rowe (jayson.rowe)]

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!