package tinyproxy 1.6.3-3.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[adamvan2000]

Binary package hint: tinyproxy

Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04
tinyproxy:
  Installed: 1.6.3-3.2
  Candidate: 1.6.3-3.2
  Version table:
 *** 1.6.3-3.2 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        500 http://mirrors.kernel.org jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
I expected it to install.
It didn't install.
Setting up tinyproxy (1.6.3-3.2) ...
chown: invalid user: `nobody\nroot'
invoke-rc.d: initscript tinyproxy, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing tinyproxy (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tinyproxy
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: tinyproxy 1.6.3-3.2
SourcePackage: tinyproxy
Title: package tinyproxy 1.6.3-3.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-12-generic x86_64

[Jordi Mallach (jordi)]

Can you post the contents of /etc/init.d/tinyproxy? As far as I know, tinyproxy does not do that kind of chown, it does a separate chown and chgrp, so I wonder where that is coming from. Does it fail with the newer versions in Ubuntu, or with 1.8.0-1 from Debian squeeze/sid?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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