package postfix None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/postfix.list] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Tanath]

Binary package hint: postfix

Upgrading to 8.10. Complained about permission denied opening /etc/aliases

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul 14 02:35:05 2008
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: postfix None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/postfix.list]
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: postfix
Title: package postfix None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/postfix.list] failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.26-3-generic i686

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

What is the output of ls -l /etc/aliases
What happens if you run newaliases manually. sudo newaliases

I see from the dpkg log that you have a lot of software from 3rd party repositories installed. Is there any of it that might have modified your aliases file?

[Tanath (tanath)]

(%:~)- ls -l /etc/aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64 2006-03-17 16:40 /etc/aliases

'newaliases' returns no output.

I don't think I really have *a lot* of 3rd party applications installed, but almost every one needs their own repo. None of it should have touched the aliases file. I have Miro, Wine, Swiftfox, Opera, Picasa, Google Desktop, Last.fm, and two Pidgin plugins. And I don't generally ruin GUI apps as root.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Not sure where to go with this then. That same command failed during the
upgrade. Thanks for reporting back.

[LaMont Jones (lamont)]

Given that the newaliases command is run as root, the error could only be caused by some additional security package (e.g., selinux, apparmor) having a bad configuration and blocking it.

lamont

[Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)]

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 if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[joel west (joel-joelwest)]

Just tried with 8.10 and unable to dupe.

[Duane Hinnen (duanedesign)]

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!