libchipcard-tools 4.1.3-2ubuntu1 postinst: initscript action "start" failed

[John Duncan]

Ubuntu 9.04

libchipcard-tools 4.1.3-2ubuntu1

Installation/Upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 filed during preparing la32-libs -

 system froze

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: libchipcard-tools 4.1.3-2ubuntu1
SourcePackage: libchipcard
Title: package libchipcard-tools 4.1.3-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

Addendum:
Manually executing "start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/chipcard/chipcardd4.pid --user chipcard --chuid chipcard --exec /usr/sbin/chipcardd4 -- --pidfile /var/run/chipcard/chipcardd4.pid --exit-on-error" yields:
start-stop-daemon: Unable to set gid to 115 (Operation not permitted)

[Philipp Kern (pkern)]

The tail of the log:

Setting up libchipcard-tools (4.1.3-2ubuntu1) ...

Starting libchipcard daemon: invoke-rc.d: initscript libchipcard-tools, action "start" failed.

dpkg: error processing libchipcard-tools (--configure):

 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Setting up libcolamd-3.2.0 (1:3.2.0-4ubuntu2) ...

[Micha Lenk (micha)]

The information available are insufficient to track down the reason for this issue.

[Micha Lenk (micha)]

This is probably a duplicate of #364196. John, can you confirm this?

[Micha Lenk (micha)]

Several independent bug reports (bug 390624, bug 309720 and probably bug 364196 too) report the same problem with starting the libchipcard daemon. I think this needs to be investigated more deeply. Hence I nominated this bug for Jaunty.

Unfortunately I have no Ubuntu system at hands right now.

[Micha Lenk (micha)]

Typo: I intended to refer to bug 390720 (not 309720) in my previous comment. Sorry.

[Wim (wim-yedema)]

I have the same problem, and since no decent log has been supplied yet here's my two cents:

 /etc/ sudo sh -x /etc/init.d/libchipcard-tools start
+ PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
+ DAEMON=/usr/sbin/chipcardd4
+ PIDFILE=/var/run/chipcard/chipcardd4.pid
+ DAEMON_ARGS=--pidfile /var/run/chipcard/chipcardd4.pid --exit-on-error
+ NAME=chipcardd4
+ DESC=libchipcard daemon
+ test -x /usr/sbin/chipcardd4
+ set -e
+ echo -n Starting libchipcard daemon:
Starting libchipcard daemon: + check_var_run
+ [ ! -d /var/run/chipcard ]
+ start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/chipcard/chipcardd4.pid --user chipcard --chuid chipcard --exec /usr/sbin/chipcardd4 -- --pidfile /var/run/chipcard/chipcardd4.pid --exit-on-error

/etc/ start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile /var/run/chipcard/chipcardd4.pid --user chipcard --chuid chipcard --exec /usr/sbin/chipcardd4 -- --pidfile /var/run/chipcard/chipcardd4.pid --exit-on-error
start-stop-daemon: Unable to set gid to 115 (Operation not permitted)

hope this helps

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Confirming based on number of dups; setting high based on being able to break the packaging system.

[Micha Lenk (micha)]

With libchipcard 5.0.0-1 in Ubuntu natty, there is no libchipcard daemon anymore that could be started by the init script. Hence I mark this bug as "Fix Released".

[ericf (ef-panix)]

1. it is amazing that there are no date stamps in this report.

2. it is amazing that it has taken this long to address this report.

3. as it's been ages since this was filed i do not remember it well and
   the description has been ommitted from the email message. however,
   i suspect that if you check the description, or even read
   what is available in the email message more carefully you will
   find that the reported bug was not with libchipcard itself, but with
   other packages that expected to find libchipcard but did not, and
   that the result was system lock-up.

4. while there may be a good reason for closing this issue, the stated
   reaason is not it. in a sense the stated reason for closing the
   report simply restates half the problem. that is, that a particular
   package is no longer part of the distribution. it does not address
   the question of other pacakages acting as if it still is.

5. as usual the good folks ostensibly fixing bugs at ubuntu seem to be
   more interested in closing bug reports than actaully fixing bugs.
   this is why i no longer use or recommend ubuntu.

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> With libchipcard 5.0.0-1 in Ubuntu natty, there is no libchipcard daemon
> anymore that could be started by the init script. Hence I mark this bug
> as "Fix Released".
>
> ** Changed in: libchipcard (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug (392058).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/371177
>
> Title:
> libchipcard-tools 4.1.3-2ubuntu1 postinst: initscript action "start"
> failed
>
> Status in “libchipcard” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Ubuntu 9.04
>
> libchipcard-tools 4.1.3-2ubuntu1
>
> Installation/Upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 filed during preparing
> la32-libs -
>
> system froze
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit
> status 1
> Package: libchipcard-tools 4.1.3-2ubuntu1
> SourcePackage: libchipcard
> Title: package libchipcard-tools 4.1.3-2ubuntu1 failed to
> install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit
> status 1
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
>
> Addendum:
> Manually executing "start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile
> /var/run/chipcard/chipcardd4.pid --user chipcard --chuid chipcard --exec
> /usr/sbin/chipcardd4 -- --pidfile /var/run/chipcard/chipcardd4.pid
> --exit-on-error" yields:
> start-stop-daemon: Unable to set gid to 115 (Operation not permitted)
>
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