package tdsodbc 0.82-3 failed to install/upgrade, tries to delete non-existing directory /var/lib/odbc

[knarf]

This package failed to install on a recent Intrepid dist-upgrade. The failure is caused by the post-installation script trying to delete a non-existing directory (/var/lib/odbc) which returns an error:

Setting up tdsodbc (0.82-3) ...
rmdir: failed to remove `/var/lib/odbc': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing tdsodbc (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tdsodbc
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Manually creating this directory (only for it to be removed again in the install process...) followed by apt-get -f install allows the install to complete without error. The post-installation script should be updated to either check for existence of this directory or to use a removal method which ignores non-existing files/directories (rm -rf is a good candidate...)

apt-cache policy tdsodbc
tdsodbc:
  Installed: 0.82-3
  Candidate: 0.82-3
  Version table:
 *** 0.82-3 0
        400 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        400 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 2 21:32:54 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: tdsodbc 0.82-3
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: freetds
Title: package tdsodbc 0.82-3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.26-t23-200807141556 i686

[John Carlyle-Clarke (jpcc)]

I was hit by precisely the same bug. I'll try your fix now!

[John Carlyle-Clarke (jpcc)]

The same fix worked for me.

[Alberto (apedraza)]

This fixed it for me.