atftpd install: cannot create directory ‘/var/log/atftpd.log’: File exists

[Bogdan Harjoc]

Just upgraded from 16.04 to 17.10 beta 2 and during the upgrade, atftpd fails the dpkg --configure step:

Setting up atftpd (0.7.git20120829-3) ...
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/log/atftpd.log’: File exists

I removed the /etc/default/atftp file before doing "apt remove atftpd; apt install atftpd" and the output is the same.

[Bogdan Harjoc (harjoc-gmail)]

Changing the OPTIONS line in /etc/default/atftpd from:

OPTIONS="--tftpd-timeout 300 --retry-timeout 5 --mcast-port 1758 --mcast-addr 239.239.239.0-255 --mcast-ttl 1 --maxthread 100 --verbose 5 /tftpboot --logfile /var/log/atftpd.log"

to:

OPTIONS="--tftpd-timeout 300 --retry-timeout 5 --mcast-port 1758 --mcast-addr 239.239.239.0-255 --mcast-ttl 1 --maxthread 100 --verbose 5 --logfile /var/log/atftpd.log /tftpboot"

fixed the 'dpkg --configure atftpd' error.

[Bogdan Harjoc (harjoc-gmail)]

Actually it's --verbose=5 not --verbose 5. The second form would use '5' as the tftp base dir.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.