Ubuntu-Server 6.06: dpkg returned an error code (1)

[jcarminati]

This is a bug found in 'Ubuntu-Server 6.06 Dapper Drake Flight 6' after installing cacti-cactid (poller for the cacti network monitor):

$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  libpam-runtime linux-image-686 linux-restricted-modules-686
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up cacti-cactid (0.8.6g-1build1) ...
dpkg: error processing cacti-cactid (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cacti-cactid
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried removing the package and reinstalling it but got the same results.
Regards.

[Eugene Kravtsoff (ekrava)]

ubuntu 6.06 AMD64-Xeon
LANG=C aptitude reinstall cacti-cactid
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
  cacti-cactid
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Setting up cacti-cactid (0.8.6g-1build1) ...
dpkg: error processing cacti-cactid (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cacti-cactid
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up cacti-cactid (0.8.6g-1build1) ...
dpkg: error processing cacti-cactid (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cacti-cactid

[Christoph Langner (chrissss)]

I can confirm this bug, it's not possible to install cacti-cactid...

[Montaro (montarotech)]

I can second this too.

running ubuntu 6.06
Linux volcano 2.6.15-26-server #1 SMP Thu Aug 3 04:09:15 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

planning to resort to building cactid by source heh

[Richard Harding (rharding)]

I'm still getting this error and in looking at the debian bug tracker it looks like it might be related to the following:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352185

In there they release a -2 package that seems to have the fix, but ubuntu seems to be shipping with a -1build1. I'm not 100% up on how ubuntu repackages what, but I think updating this package from the debian release should fix this.

[Kai Kasurinen (kai-kasurinen)]

Thanks for the bug report. I'm closing it because the bug has been fixed in Edgy.

If you need a fix for the bug in Dapper, please follow the instructions for "How to request new packages". https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports

cacti-cactid (0.8.6g-2) unstable; urgency=high

  * previous version was uninstallable after cacti was converted to
    dbconfig-common. as this makes cactid uninstallable in both
    unstable and testing, this is an RC bug and thus urgency
    is bumped (closes: #352185).

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