post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Florian Effenberger]

After the latest update to cgroup-lite has been published, it is stuck at a post-installation script error:

$ LANG="C" sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up cgroup-lite (1.1.4) ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript cgroup-lite, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing cgroup-lite (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cgroup-lite
[ Rootkit Hunter version 1.3.8 ]
File updated: searched for 165 files, found 137
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I have this on a hand ful of 12.04.3 machines, some with LTS enablement stack, some without.
The machine whose record is attached has deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chris-lea/node.js/ubuntu precise main as PPA, others don't use any PPAs.

sources.list reads:
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise main restricted
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates main restricted
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise universe
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates universe
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise multiverse
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates multiverse
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise-security multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu precise partner
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu precise main

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: cgroup-lite 1.1.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-58.88-generic 3.2.53
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-58-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 8 07:43:10 2014
Dependencies:

MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen-bce
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de
SourcePackage: cgroup-lite
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Michael Schaller (misch-9)]

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cgroup-lite/+bug/1257857/comments/14 for a workaround.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Philipp Kern (pkern)]

Ought to be fixed in 1.1.5.

[Serge Hallyn (serge-hallyn)]

@Florian,

thanks for opening this bug. If this isn't fixed for you in 1.5, please let us know.

[Florian Effenberger (floeff)]

I wasn't able to get it via apt-get upgrade, maybe it's not on the mirrors yet, but installing http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cgroup-lite/cgroup-lite_1.1.5_all.deb manually indeed seemed to do the trick! :)