dnet-common - post inst script update-rc.d has error

[Avi]

Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said It seems that the line
update-rc.d decnet start\ 39\ S\ .\ \ stop\ 11\ 1\ . >/dev/null
in the postinst script requires a change.

# Reproduced by
strykar@i-5:~$ sudo apt list dnet-common
Listing... Done
dnet-common/cosmic,cosmic,now 2.65build1 all [installed]

strykar@i-5:~$ sudo apt remove dnet-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  dnet-common
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 106 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 225939 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing dnet-common (2.65build1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.4-2) ...

strykar@i-5:~$ sudo apt install dnet-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dnet-common
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/35.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 106 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
dnet-common: Skipping configure of DECnet
Selecting previously unselected package dnet-common.
(Reading database ... 225926 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../dnet-common_2.65build1_all.deb ...
Unpacking dnet-common (2.65build1) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (239-7ubuntu10.4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.4-2) ...
Setting up dnet-common (2.65build1) ...
dnet-common: Skipping configure of DECnet
usage: update-rc.d [-f] <basename> remove
       update-rc.d [-f] <basename> defaults
       update-rc.d [-f] <basename> defaults-disabled
       update-rc.d <basename> disable|enable [S|2|3|4|5]
  -f: force

The disable|enable API is not stable and might change in the future.
dpkg: error processing package dnet-common (--configure):
 installed dnet-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dnet-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

$ uname -a
Linux i-5 4.18.0-11-generic #12-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 23 19:22:37 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I've tried using aptitude and it doesn't give me any more info on the issue.

[Manfred Hampl (m-hampl)]

VirtualBox:~$ lsb_release -crid
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.10
Release: 18.10
Codename: cosmic

VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt install dnet-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dnet-common
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 35.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 106 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu cosmic/universe amd64 dnet-common all 2.65build1 [35.0 kB]
Fetched 35.0 kB in 0s (95.1 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
dnet-common: Skipping configure of DECnet
Selecting previously unselected package dnet-common.
(Reading database ... 173328 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../dnet-common_2.65build1_all.deb ...
Unpacking dnet-common (2.65build1) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (239-7ubuntu10.4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.4-2) ...
Setting up dnet-common (2.65build1) ...
dnet-common: Skipping configure of DECnet
usage: update-rc.d [-f] <basename> remove
       update-rc.d [-f] <basename> defaults
       update-rc.d [-f] <basename> defaults-disabled
       update-rc.d <basename> disable|enable [S|2|3|4|5]
  -f: force

The disable|enable API is not stable and might change in the future.
dpkg: error processing package dnet-common (--configure):
 installed dnet-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for systemd (239-7ubuntu10.4) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dnet-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -l dnet-common
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
iF dnet-common 2.65build1 all Base package for Linux DECnet

The same on disco:

VirtualBox:~$ lsb_release -crid
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Disco Dingo (development branch)
Release: 19.04
Codename: disco

VirtualBox:~$ sudo apt install dnet-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dnet-common
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/35.0 kB of archives.
After this operation, 106 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
dnet-common: Skipping configure of DECnet
Selecting previously unselected package dnet-common.
(Reading database ... 138040 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../dnet-common_2.65build1_all.deb ...
Unpacking dnet-common (2.65build1) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (239-7ubuntu10.4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.4-3) ...
Setting up dnet-common (2.65build1) ...
dnet-common: Skipping configure of DECnet
usage: update-rc.d [-f] <basename> remove
       update-rc.d [-f] <basename> defaults
   ...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Keith Z-G (keithzg)]

My officemate just ran into this while upgrading to 18.10, and changing

update-rc.d decnet start\ 39\ S\ .\ \ stop\ 11\ 1\ . >/dev/null

to (as I saw on my 18.04 system, where installing dnet-common *did* work)

update-rc.d decnet start 39 S . stop 11 1 . >/dev/null

seems to have resolved it; installation then completes as follows:

Preconfiguring packages ...
dnet-common: Skipping configure of DECnet
Selecting previously unselected package dnet-common.
(Reading database ... 1140653 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../dnet-common_2.65_all.deb ...
Unpacking dnet-common (2.65) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.9) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Setting up dnet-common (2.65) ...
dnet-common: Skipping configure of DECnet
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
update-rc.d: warning: start runlevel arguments (S) do not match decnet Default-Start values (2 3 4 5)
update-rc.d: warning: stop runlevel arguments (1) do not match decnet Default-Stop values (0 1 6)
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.9) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...

[Avi (strykar-p)]

Yup, that fixes it, just installed from source.. attaching patch.
Unsure if this is a real solution because of the warning messages.

strykar@i-5:~/deb_src/dnprogs-2.65build1/debian$ diff rules ~/rules.p0
52c52
< dh_installinit -pdnet-common --init-script=decnet --update-rcd-params="start\ 39\ S\ .\ \ stop\ 11\ 1\ ."
---
> dh_installinit -pdnet-common --init-script=decnet --update-rcd-params="start 39 S . stop 11 1 . >/dev/null"

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "rules.patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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