Comment 7 for bug 48010

System: upgrading from 6.06.1 LTS to Edgy Eft (6.10)

This is the error log in /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log:
ERROR: root: got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'firestarter': subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2.

To get more debugging message, I enabled the following flag and rerun dpkg:
export DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer; dpkg --configure -a

The error is related to firestarter failing to start its daemon. The error occurs when running the script /etc/init.d/firestarter start. To see more debugging message, remove the redirection of the following line in the init.d script /etc/init.d/firestarter start:
(commented:)
# $FS_CONTROL start > /dev/null
(new line:)
$FS_CONTROL start

The offending line is in the script /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh. It aborts when any network interface called in /etc/firestarter/configuration is not yet initilized. In my case, it is eth1 (wlan). I just assigned an IP address to the offending interface.

The next offending line in /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh is related to the DHCP not starting properly. Just disable DHCP for NATs when you enabled NAT in /etc/firestarter/configuration. In /etc/firestarter/configuration, set the following lines to off:

# Enable DHCP server for NAT clients
DHCP_SERVER="off"
# Forward server's DNS settings to clients in DHCP lease
DHCP_DYNAMIC_DNS="off"