package zephyr-clients 2.1.20070719.SNAPSHOT-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 16

[RonInCambridge]

Transcript of attempt to install on Ubuntu 8.0.4 Desktop system:

hoffmann@hoffmann-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install zephyr-clients
[sudo] password for hoffmann:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libares0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libares0 zephyr-clients
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 165kB of archives.
After this operation, 545kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main libares0 1.1.1-5.1 [17.4kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe zephyr-clients 2.1.20070719.SNAPSHOT-1 [148kB]
Fetched 165kB in 0s (207kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package libares0.
(Reading database ... 113560 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libares0 (from .../libares0_1.1.1-5.1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package zephyr-clients.
Unpacking zephyr-clients (from .../zephyr-clients_2.1.20070719.SNAPSHOT-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up libares0 (1.1.1-5.1) ...

Setting up zephyr-clients (2.1.20070719.SNAPSHOT-1) ...
Restarting zephyr host manager: No valid primary server found, exiting.
invoke-rc.d: initscript zhm, action "restart" failed.
dpkg: error processing zephyr-clients (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 16
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 zephyr-clients
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
hoffmann@hoffmann-desktop:~$
~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 14 18:52:08 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 16
Package: zephyr-clients 2.1.20070719.SNAPSHOT-1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: zephyr
Title: package zephyr-clients 2.1.20070719.SNAPSHOT-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 16
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[josef lauri (josef-lauri)]

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