package ejabberd failed to install/upgrade: Conflicts found! Please edit `/etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg' and sort them out manually.

[marsteegh]

Binary package hint: update-manager

standard upgrade of up-to-date hardy -> intrepid

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Package: update-manager 1:0.93.32
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.93.32 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

The error is
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Setting up ejabberd (2.0.1-2) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/default/ejabberd ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/ejabberd ...
Merging changes into the new version
 Conflicts found! Please edit `/etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg' and sort them out manually.
 The file `/etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.cfg.ucf-new' has a record of the failed merge of the configuration file.
dpkg: error processing ejabberd (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3
=====

The cause of the failure is the 3 way merge option of ucf.

Affecting to ejabberd and adding and ucf task.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ucf - 3.0018ubuntu1

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ucf (3.0018ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * On a three-way merge conflict, output the error message using a debconf
    error and then return to the debconf menu - instead of throwing a
    non-zero error code and causing the package install to abort. Anything
    the user needs to do to fix up the broken merge can be done as well
    from the debconf menu as from after the install failure, and this way we
    don't have a logjam of failed package installs on dist-upgrade.
    LP: #269539, #293687.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:10:29 -0700