package daemontools-run 1:0.76-3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Stephen Turner]

Binary package hint: daemontools

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

$ apt-cache policy daemontools daemontools-run
daemontools:
  Installed: 1:0.76-3
  Candidate: 1:0.76-3
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.76-3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
daemontools-run:
  Installed: 1:0.76-3
  Candidate: 1:0.76-3
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.76-3 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

$ sudo apt-get install daemontools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
daemontools is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up daemontools-run (1:0.76-3) ...
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory
Adding SV inittab entry...
cp: cannot stat `/etc/inittab': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing daemontools-run (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 daemontools-run
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Dependencies:
 libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1ubuntu11
 gcc-4.3-base 4.3.2-1ubuntu11
 findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
 daemontools 1:0.76-3
 libc6 2.8~20080505-0ubuntu7
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: daemontools-run 1:0.76-3
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: daemontools
Title: package daemontools-run 1:0.76-3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic x86_64

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 253465, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.