PHP5 fails to install lucid

[Ian Hoff]

Binary package hint: php5

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libapache2-mod-php5 php5-common
Suggested packages:
  php-pear php5-suhosin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-common
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Selecting previously deselected package php5-common.
(Reading database ... 51039 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking php5-common (from .../php5-common_5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libapache2-mod-php5.
Unpacking libapache2-mod-php5 (from .../libapache2-mod-php5_5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package php5.
Unpacking php5 (from .../php5_5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9_all.deb) ...
Setting up php5-common (5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9) ...
Setting up libapache2-mod-php5 (5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9) ...
dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-php5 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 20
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php5:
 php5 depends on libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9) | libapache2-mod-php5filter (>= 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9) | php5-cgi (>= 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9); however:
  Package libapache2-mod-php5 is not configured yet.
  Package libapache2-mod-php5filter is not installed.
  Package php5-cgi is not installed.
dpkg: error processing php5 (--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:
 libapache2-mod-php5
 php5
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Ian Hoff (5-admin4life-gmail-com)]

Trying to quell the dependency issue by installing php5-cgi gives the same error

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

Hi Ian, thanks for taking the time to file a bug report!

There is no dependency issue above. The post-installation script failed, as indicated here:

Setting up libapache2-mod-php5 (5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9) ...
dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-php5 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 20

So dpkg will not configure the rest of the dependent packages until libapache2-mod-php5 is configured.

The post-installation script, if you haven't removed the package from your system, should be at

/var/lib/dpkg/info/libapache2-mod-php5.postinst

It most likely had some issue while configuring the module. Error 20 is generally "Not a directory", so probably tried to do an 'rmdir' or 'chdir' on a directory that isn't on your system even though it should be. That very well could be a bug if its a directory the script should not expect to automatically be there. You can help us figure out if its a bug, or if your system has problems causing the issue, by running it with

sudo sh -x /var/lib/dpkg/info/libapache2-mod-php5.postinst configure 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9

And pasting the output here.

Marking Incomplete pending response from Ian.

[Ian Hoff (5-admin4life-gmail-com)]

I ran the command as root user.
sh -x /var/lib/dpkg/info/libapache2-mod-php5.postinst configure 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.9
+ set -e
+ [ configure = triggered ]
+ [ configure != configure ]
+ phpini=/etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
+ ucf /usr/share/php5/php.ini-production /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

[Ian Hoff (5-admin4life-gmail-com)]

I tried to get some more info on what might be happening with ucf

ucf -v /usr/share/php5/php.ini-production /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
ucf: The new file is /usr/share/php5/php.ini-production
ucf: The Destination file is /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
ucf: The Source directory is /usr/share/php5
ucf: The State directory is /var/lib/ucf
The hash file exists
egrep [[:space:]]\/etc\/php5\/apache2\/php\.ini$ /var/lib/ucf/hashfile
ucf: The new file is /usr/share/php5/php.ini-production
ucf: The Destination file is /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
ucf: The Source directory is /usr/share/php5
ucf: The State directory is /var/lib/ucf
The hash file exists

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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