package openafs-client 1.4.6.dfsg1-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[cw33514]

Ubuntu ver 8.04 Custom Live DVD built using Remastersys
Automated crash report invoked when running from the DVD for the first time

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 5 10:01:29 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: openafs-client 1.4.6.dfsg1-2
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: openafs
Title: package openafs-client 1.4.6.dfsg1-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Russ Allbery (rra-debian)]

As it says at the bottom of your log, "None of the hostnames resolved to an address." You entered VLDB servers for your local cell that don't exist. Run dpkg-reconfigure and enter correct hostnames.

[Russ Allbery (rra-debian)]

Ah, sorry, I hadn't noticed that this was an automated crash report. You may have already realized that and fixed it. :) Anyway, due to the prompting order of how configuration is handled, it's hard for the openafs-client package to do anything other than error when all the VLDB servers are invalid, since it can't then write out a valid CellServDB entry for the local cell. I suppose it could fall back on configuring the system for openafs.org....

[Björn Torkelsson (torkel)]

It probably wont work in a live CD/DVD environment anyway as it needs the kernel module for it to work. At least not until openafs has switched to using DKMS or until the kernel module has been precompiled.

Guess this bug can be marked as "wont fix"?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package openafs - 1.4.8.dfsg1-2

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openafs (1.4.8.dfsg1-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Make openafs-modules-source architecture-specific (arch: any instead
    of arch: all). The new method for generating the kernel source tree
    only generates correct build machinery for the architecture on which
    it was built, making the package architecture-specific. The generated
    tree is so much smaller that this still only uses about 1MB of archive
    space more than the old method and makes each openafs-modules-source
    package much smaller. This is a workaround until we can fix
    libafs_tree to include enough build machinery to handle all Linux
    architectures from one source tree. (Closes: #516023)
  * Explicitly remove *-stamp files in the clean target of the module
    build until the module build is upgraded to debhelper 7.

openafs (1.4.8.dfsg1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. (Closes: #511535)
    - Support 2.6.28 kernels. (LP: #303112)
    - Check at compile time that the kernel has keyring support rather
      than building non-functional modules. (Closes: #500850)
    - Include vos clone man page. (LP: #324449)
  * Apply upstream CVS deltas:
    - STABLE14-libuafs-updates-20081229: prerequisite for other deltas.
    - STABLE14-linux-truncate-race-20090109: avoid race condition during
      truncation.
    - STABLE14-linux-i-size-20090112: further fix for truncation race.
    - STABLE14-linux-truncate-cleanup-20090113: further truncation fix.
    - STABLE14-osi-probe-check-result-cope-with-enoent-20090115: fix for
      syscall probing.
    - STABLE14-linux-2629-20090115: support for 2.6.29 kernels.
      (Closes: #513680)
    - STABLE14-rx-idledead-only-ignore-keepalives-20081222: rx bug fix to
      not ignore other ping packets.
    - STABLE14-rx-rdwr-writeproc-race-20081228: fix rx race condition that
      could result in reuse of freed memory.
    - STABLE14-rx-do-not-race-current-packet-20090105: fix rx race
      condition.
  * Use make libafs_tree to generate the tree for the kernel module
    compile rather than copying the entire source tree.
  * Compress the source in openafs-modules-source with bzip2 instead of
    gzip to reduce the package size.
  * Make dynroot the default for new installations. It works much better
    with systems that don't bring up their network until late in the boot
    process, such as wireless laptops. (LP: #249240, #318605)
  * Mention libpam-afs-session instead of libpam-openafs-session in the
    description of libpam-openafs-kaserver, and mention libpam-krb5 by
    name. Thanks, Philipp Kaluza. (Closes: #501308)
  * Suggest module-assistant auto-install in README.modules and be clearer
    that building one's own kernel is not required. Thanks, Anders
    Kaseorg and Lutz Goehring for suggestions. (LP: #295897)
  * Allow time-daemon to satisfy the openafs-fileserver recommends in
    addition to ntp, allowing for openntpd. (Closes: #508258)
  * General improvements to debconf configuration handling.
    - Do not abort the config script if we have no default realm and
      dnsdomainname fails. (LP: #274886, #318...

[WolphFang (mjoyner-vbservices)]

I had to manually install dkms as a dependency to fix my problem.