package drupal6 6.10-1 failed to install/upgrade: underproces post-installation script returnerede afslutningsstatus 1

[phillipude]

Binary package hint: drupal6

The same error did occur when trying to install the package. So it is not only an upgrading problem.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: underproces post-installation script returnerede afslutningsstatus 1
Package: drupal6 6.10-1
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: drupal6
Title: package drupal6 6.10-1 failed to install/upgrade: underproces post-installation script returnerede afslutningsstatus 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Scott Testerman (scott-testerman)]

It appears that the failure is due to not connecting to MySQL. What was your procedure for installing: 1) install the Ubuntu LAMP stack first and then Drupal6 on top of that, or 2) install Drupal6 with everything installed at once?

[fredbird67 (fredmck)]

Why does this thing ask me for a password when installing it when I haven't even inasmuch as set up a MySQL root password to begin with? This is NONSENSE!!!!!

[Scott Testerman (scott-testerman)]

Are you receiving the same error message as the OP during installation? If so, please provide some more information about the errors you are receiving, since you haven't provided enough information in your comment to diagnose your problem. If not, you appear to have found a different bug, so please feel free to post a new bug report against Drupal6.

Drupal requires a password to communicate with its own account in MySQL, and it will require the MySQL root password you set when you installed MySQL. If you set the MySQL root password to "Enter" then that is the password you should use.

For further information about installing Drupal6 on Ubuntu or Debian, please read /usr/share/doc/drupal6/README.Debian.gz. Also be sure to read http://drupal.org/getting-started/install for general Drupal installation instructions.

[David Baucum (maxolasersquad)]

I got this same crash when trying to uninstall drupal. Here's what I got at the terminal.
$ sudo aptitude purge drupal6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  dbconfig-common{u} drupal6{p} exim4{u} libt1-5{u} php5-gd{u} wwwconfig-common{u}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 7,725kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 239222 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing drupal6 ...
dbconfig-common: dumping mysql database drupal6 to /var/tmp/drupal6.drupal6.2010-02-12-23.34.mysql.J2XPRl.
error encountered dumping database:
mysqldump: Got error: 1049: Unknown database 'drupal6' when selecting the database
dbconfig-common: drupal6 remove: aborted.
dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password
dpkg: error processing drupal6 (--purge):
 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dbconfig-common: flushing administrative password
Errors were encountered while processing:
 drupal6
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done

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