Comment 1 for bug 111496

And here is the output when using apt-get:

 sudo apt-get install smartmontools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
smartmontools is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up smartmontools (5.36-8ubuntu2) ...
 * Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon smartd [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript smartmontools, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing smartmontools (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of smart-notifier:
 smart-notifier depends on smartmontools (>= 5.33+5.34cvs20050802-2); however:
  Package smartmontools is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing smart-notifier (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 smartmontools
 smart-notifier
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)