update-rc.d usage errors when upgrading from gutsy to hardy

[tiongming]

Also during the upgrade to 8.04, there were errors at the end. I cannot remember exactly what it is. Compare this upgrade to the 7.10, the 7.10 had no error massage. Please rectify ASAP.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 11 19:19:42 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: cron 3.0pl1-100ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: cron
Title: package cron 3.0pl1-100ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Kjell Braden (afflux)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this bug.
Can you please provide the output of "apt-cache policy sysv-rc"?

Thanks,

[tiongming (tiongming)]

Sorry for this late reply! I am not familiar with this system.
sysv-rc:
  Installed: 2.86.ds1-38
  Candidate: 2.86.ds1-38
  Version table:
 *** 2.86.ds1-38 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu45 0
        500 http://mirror.optus.net hardy/main Packages
Regards, tiongming.

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

A lot of errors related to the usage of update-rc.d...
Packages affected:
 cron

 rsync

 ubuntu-standard

 acpid

 acpi-support

 hotkey-setup

 powermanagement-interface

 pulseaudio

 ubuntu-desktop

 sysklogd

 ubuntu-minimal

 klogd

[Kjell Braden (afflux)]

This happens when you installed sysv-rc from debian, which you seem to have. See also bug 157041.