package libchipcard-tools 4.1.3-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Jeff Henderson]

I was upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10. I left the computer and it locked up. Could not get the last revision to boot.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libchipcard-tools 4.1.3-2
SourcePackage: libchipcard
Title: package libchipcard-tools 4.1.3-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic x86_64

[Micha Lenk (micha)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 291868, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report.

You can create the directory /var/run/chipcard/ in advance to avoid this to happen.

The reason for this bug has been fixed in libchipcard 4.2.8-1ubuntu1.

[Micha Lenk (micha)]

An error has occurred during copy/pasting the duplicate is bug 283925.