package gforge-db-postgresql 4.7.3-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Tigerboy]

Binary package hint: gforge

Possibly similar. I am trying to uninstall gforge-mediawiki entirely and apache2. I have poked around and tried various things with no benefit. I cannot remove gforge-mediawiki and related packages. The process fails leaving the main package yet uninstalled and also preventing me from uninstalling all of the apache2 packages. I then leave synaptic package manager (or apt-get) and return and get a broken package warning... run fix packages and it reinstalls all gforge-mediawiki packages to fix the broken remnant package. No matter what I do this repeats and as I say i cannot finish uninstalling apache as a result. My system is fully updated with no other known dysfunctionalities. This is a potential security bug.

ProblemType: Package
AptOrdering:
 gforge-db-postgresql: Install
 gforge-web-apache2: Install
 gforge-db-postgresql: Configure
 gforge-web-apache2: Configure
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Dec 7 00:32:07 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: gforge-db-postgresql 4.7.3-2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: gforge
Title: package gforge-db-postgresql 4.7.3-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64

[Tigerboy (tigersands)]

Clarification: I am trying to remove all of apache2 and gforge. Gforge seems to be in the way... the problem seems to be in the gforge-plugin-mediawiki package as I seem to be able to remove all other gforge packages... but with the plugin left the system complains of a broken package and reinstalls all other packages of gforge.

[Tigerboy (tigersands)]

I still cannot remove apache nor the evil-doer gforge, as stated above. This is causing me grave stress, I have lost all sense of happiness in life, as I come here to my trouble ticket page and see no changes in the form of assistance, day after day.

[Vincent Hindriksen (vhindriksen)]

Quick fix:
- make an empty file /etc/init.d/apache
- uninstall gforge-plugin-mediawiki
- remove /etc/init.d/apache

The uninstall-script of the mediawiki-plugin should really be fixed!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Reviewing your log files attached to this bug report it seems that a package failed to install due to a segmentation fault in application being used by the package installation process. Unfortunately, this bug report isn't very useful in its current state and a crash report would be much more useful. Could you try recreating this issue by enabling apport to catch the crash report 'sudo service apport start force_start=1' and then trying to install the same package again? This process will create a new bug report so I am marking this one as Invalid. Thanks again for helping out!