install crashes while adding mailody software
Bug #369088 reported by
Sacha
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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mysql-dfsg-5.0 (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
having added mailody in the add/remove apps, it started installing mysql. the process went quite far until it said that it crashed. i'm running Ubuntu 8.10. i can still start mailody from the app menu.
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: mysql-server-5.0 None [modified: /var/lib/
SourcePackage: mysql-dfsg-5.0
Title: package mysql-server-5.0 None [modified: /var/lib/
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686
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These lines, from DpkgTerminalLog.txt
Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator
chfn: PAM authentication failed
adduser: `/usr/bin/chfn -f MySQL Server mysql' returned error code 1. Exiting.
...makes me think of bug #238755.
Does anything mentioned in it, and its comment, sound familiar? Is it a clean 8.10 install, or is it an upgrade from 8.04?