package sun-java6-jre 6-15-1 failed to install/upgrade: exit status 2 - Cannot connect to /tmp/aptdaemon-xxxxxx/debconf.socket: Connection refused

[Nicholas Christian Langkjær Ipsen]

When installing Sun Java 6 with the Software Center, it didn't show the window where you agree to the license, and thus wouldn't install. This removed all items that were supposed to be installed after anmd, opened a very dramatic window telling me I had a dependency error, and sent me to synaptic to install Java from there, where it was shown as a broken package.

This would be very annoying for the average user.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 15 23:45:18 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: sun-java6-jre 6-15-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: sun-java6
Title: package sun-java6-jre 6-15-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report

The relevant error is
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Unpacking sun-java6-jre (from .../sun-java6-jre_6-15-1_all.deb) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Passthrough
debconf: (Cannot connect to /tmp/aptdaemon-m4phO3/debconf.socket: Connection refused at (eval 22) line 3)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Noninteractive

sun-dlj-v1-1 license could not be presented
try 'dpkg-reconfigure debconf' to select a frontend other than noninteractive

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/sun-java6-jre_6-15-1_all.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 2

This is likely a dup.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Are you able to reproduce it and provide a recipe to do so ? Thanks.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

might be a caused by bug 455861

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

This should be fixed by the better debconf proxying which is now shipped in Lucid.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

@aldraf: please don't change the status of bug reports without giving any reason.

[Andy Behrens (andy-behrens)]

Under lucid, Software Center doesn't even report an error, just sits there waiting for "/usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst install" to complete. I had to kill it manually after waiting two hours.

[Andy Behrens (andy-behrens)]

Correction (re #7). It apparently is working correctly now. Another application had popped up a window that completely hid the "Do you accept license?" pane.