package nfdump 1.5.7+20081221-3 failed to install/upgrade:

[John Mann]

Binary package hint: nfdump

DistUpgrade of Ubuntu 9.4 to 9.10 reported this error

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 30 14:30:55 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: nfdump 1.5.7+20081221-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-15.52-generic
SourcePackage: nfdump
Title: package nfdump 1.5.7+20081221-3 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic x86_64

[BoundlessXest (xest)]

Failed to remove, also.

$ sudo apt-get remove nfdump
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  nfdump
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 848kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 128841 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing nfdump ...
invoke-rc.d: initscript nfdump, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing nfdump (--remove):
 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
invoke-rc.d: initscript nfdump, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nfdump
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Mr_Light (stuurff)]

"DistUpgrade of Ubuntu 9.4 to 9.10 reported this error"
Also effects 'clean' install(where clean means that I didn't upgrade, not directly out-of-the-box clean)

[Pavol Babinčák (scrool)]

Init.d script /etc/init.d/nfdump return value depends on VERBOSE enviroment variable:

$ /etc/init.d/nfdump start ; echo "retval: $?"
retval: 1

$ INIT_VERBOSE=yes /etc/init.d/nfdump start ; echo "retval: $?"
 * Starting netflow capture daemon nfcapd [ OK ]
retval: 0

I've attached patch fixes this bug.

[82jack (giacomo-balestra)]

Thank you Pavol

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. This is the link to the patch that Debian used to fix this issue. I will try to get an SRU done for this. Please report any other issues you may find.
http://gpl.code.de/gitweb/?p=nfdump.git;a=patch;h=c2ee06bf5695f77ac2cf4f78e67978ebe3bd1c6f

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Micah, are you still working on an SRU? The bug is fixed in Lucid, Maverick and Natty, so it would only apply to Karmic.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

This only affected karmic, so marking the Development task invalid.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

If someone would like to pick this up, feel free.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

karmic has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the karmic task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".