package apache2 2.4.7-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: unable to install `/etc/apache2/ports.conf.dpkg-new' as `/etc/apache2/ports.conf': Device or resource busy

[Omri Gilad]

Occurred while upgrading form 12.04 to 14.04.

Could have something to do with the fact that the file is bound to another, ie. running mount reveals this line (among others less relevant):

/home/ubuntu/bootstrap/apache2/ports.conf on /etc/apache2/ports.conf type none (rw,bind)

Although as far as I can tell, the original file should be writable.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: apache2 2.4.7-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-virtual 3.2.18
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-virtual x86_64
Apache2ConfdDirListing: ['localized-error-pages.dpkg-remove', 'charset.dpkg-remove', 'security.dpkg-remove', 'other-vhosts-access-log.dpkg-remove']
Apache2Modules:
 Error: command ['/usr/sbin/apachectl', '-D DUMP_MODULES'] failed with exit code 1: apache2: Syntax error on line 140 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/authz_default.load: No such file or directory
 Action '-D DUMP_MODULES' failed.
 The Apache error log may have more information.
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 20 09:36:12 2014
DuplicateSignature: package:apache2:2.4.7-1ubuntu4:ErrorMessage: unable to install `/etc/apache2/ports.conf.dpkg-new' as `/etc/apache2/ports.conf': Device or resource busy
Ec2AMI: ami-7963750d
Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown)
Ec2AvailabilityZone: eu-west-1b
Ec2InstanceType: t1.micro
Ec2Kernel: aki-62695816
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: unable to install `/etc/apache2/ports.conf.dpkg-new' as `/etc/apache2/ports.conf': Device or resource busy
SourcePackage: apache2
Title: package apache2 2.4.7-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: unable to install `/etc/apache2/ports.conf.dpkg-new' as `/etc/apache2/ports.conf': Device or resource busy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-20 (0 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.apache2.conf.available.charset.conf: [deleted]
modified.conffile..etc.apache2.conf.available.localized.error.pages.conf: [deleted]
modified.conffile..etc.apache2.conf.available.other.vhosts.access.log.conf: [deleted]
modified.conffile..etc.apache2.conf.available.security.conf: [deleted]
modified.conffile..etc.apache2.conf.available.serve.cgi.bin.conf: [deleted]
modified.conffile..etc.apache2.ports.conf: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.apache2.ports.conf: 2014-02-03T15:56:22.007933

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Due to your unusual configuration, I don't think it's reasonable to expect the maintainer script to be able to automatically deal with your situation. It'll need tweaking manually. Thus, I don't consider this to be a bug, so am marking this Invalid.

If you disagree, please do explain and change the bug status back to New. Thanks!