Failure in postinst while upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04

[James Sheldon]

Binary package hint: network-manager

I installed 7.10 on my system and then tried to upgrade to 8.04RTS with the Upgrade Manager. When the install was almost completed, it said that it had trouble installing network-manager. Then the install froze-- weirdly enough, the GNOME menus and internal commands worked fine but there was no way to get to a terminal window. I did a hard reset and tried to boot into the new kernel, and it just gave me a blank screen. Booting into the old kernel worked, and the system is functional, including, surprisingly enough, the network manager. Running lsb_release -rd shows that I am indeed running 8.04.3 LTS.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 11 15:33:54 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Package: network-manager 0.6.6-0ubuntu5.8.04.2
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: network-manager
Title: package network-manager 0.6.6-0ubuntu5.8.04.2 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-14-generic i686

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

error is:

Setting up network-manager (0.6.6-0ubuntu5.8.04.2) ...
 * Restarting network connection manager NetworkManager
dpkg: error processing network-manager (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[Thomas Hood (jdthood)]

Does this problem persist in Ubuntu 12.04?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for network-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[James Sheldon (voyager640)]

Thomas,

This is a bug during upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04. So your question asking about 12.04 makes no sense. The bug only exists in the upgrade process from 7.10 to 8.04... and eventually I upgraded past that version and there were no further problems.

But it still would be nice to have this fixed, for people upgrading old systems sequentially version by version.

~James