[apport] package sensors-applet 2.2.1-1ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: underprosessen post-installation script returnerte feilstatus 139

[Alexander Rødseth]

Binary package hint: sensors-applet

I installed sensors-applet through synaptic, then tried to remove it.
This error-message appears at both installation and uninstallation.
I can't remove the package now.

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"

2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 21:01:46 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

apt-cache policy sensors-applet:

sensors-applet:
  Installert: 2.2.1-1ubuntu3
  Kandidat: 2.2.1-1ubuntu3
  Versjonstabell:
 *** 2.2.1-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

* I expected to be able to install and uninstall it, and that it would cooperate with hddtemp.
* Instead, it would neither.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 4 01:41:14 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: underprosessen post-installation script returnerte feilstatus 139
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: sensors-applet 2.2.1-1ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: sensors-applet
Title: package sensors-applet 2.2.1-1ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: underprosessen post-installation script returnerte feilstatus 139
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

[Alexander Rødseth (alexanro)]

Trying to force/remove it results in a segfault:

sudo dpkg --force-all -r sensors-applet
(Leser database ... 103140 filer og kataloger er installerte.)
Fjerner sensors-applet ...
Segmentation fault
dpkg: Feil ved behandling av sensors-applet (--remove):
 underprosessen post-removal script returnerte feilstatus 139
Det oppsto feil ved behandling av:
 sensors-applet

(There is probably a more correct way to force a removal, but I tried all I could think of)

[Alexander Rødseth (alexanro)]

This file:
/var/lib/dpkg/info/sensors-applet.postinst
Contains this:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by dh_scrollkeeper
if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && which scrollkeeper-update >/dev/null 2>&1; then
 scrollkeeper-update -q >/dev/null 2>&1
fi
# End automatically added section
# Automatically added by dh_icons
if which update-icon-caches >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
 update-icon-caches /usr/share/icons/hicolor
fi
# End automatically added section

After trying to run both scrollkeeper-update and update-icon-caches, I discover that scollkeeper-update sefaults:
$ scrollkeeper-update
Segmentation fault

And finally, here's a workaround:
1. Comment out three lines from /var/lib/dpkg/info/sensors-applet.postrm so that it looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
# Automatically added by dh_scrollkeeper
#if [ "$1" = "remove" ] && which scrollkeeper-update >/dev/null 2>&1; then
# scrollkeeper-update -q
#fi
# End automatically added section
# Automatically added by dh_icons
if which update-icon-caches >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
        update-icon-caches /usr/share/icons/hicolor
fi
# End automatically added section
2. sudo aptitude remove sensors-applet

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

This workaround may permit you to remove sensors-applet but doesn't cure what seems to be a more serious problem in your system (which will resurface later on).
I´m therefore changing this as a bug to scrollkeeper. Could you perhaps obtain a backtrace of the scrollkeeper-update crash so that we can debug this issue?

[Alexander Rødseth (alexanro)]

I found that the issue appeared after my system have frozen repeatedly
because 64-bit Ubuntu is having trouble with my WDC WD1500ADFD-0
harddrive. (The drive does support NCQ, but it doesn't get that at
boot according to dmesg, which I think is the source of that problem).
This in turn lead to some files being corrupted, which is the cause of
this bug. I have reinstalled since this happened and are upgrading to
intrepid right now, in hope that a later kernel will fix the issue.

I don't know where to report the harddrive-issue, if it's the kernel,
acpid or something else.

Anyways, I guess this bug can be closed, since it's unrelated.

[Alexander Rødseth (alexanro)]

Upgrading to intrepid (with the kernel that follows) has solved the issue here.

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

OK, closing this then. You may want to open another bug for the kernel in case the file corruption problem reappears.