Apport refuses to upgrade in Natty

[David Hill]

Binary package hint: apport

Setting up apport (1.20.1-0ubuntu3) ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript apport, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing apport (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apport-gtk:
 apport-gtk depends on apport (>= 0.41); however:
  Package apport is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing apport-gtk (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 apport
 apport-gtk
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: apport 1.20.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-generic-pae 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 20 17:39:45 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-19 (1 days ago)

[David Hill (david-hill-ubisoft)]

By turning it on in /etc/default/apport, it solves the problem.

Thank you! :)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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 767498, 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[John S. Gruber (jsjgruber)]

Thanks much, David.

It's true--editing /etc/default/apport such that enabled=1 allows apport to be installed. Since there had been messages that apport-gtk was broken because of apport's problem, I reinstalled it with synaptic and set the /etc/default/apport file back to enabled=0

[John S. Gruber (jsjgruber)]

Set to confirmed since there are 3 people so far affected.

[John S. Gruber (jsjgruber)]

My messages crossed with Brian's. Thanks, Bryan.

The master bug says a fix has been released (and presumably the package is being rebuilt at this time.)