Comment 10 for bug 468915

Hi, guys. This is what worked for me, not only for gpsd, but for open-jdk too, another hard to fix issue I had after upgrading to karmic.
I executed aptitude in a terminal. Then I executed a query for gpsd, just to know what depended on it. Then I uninstalled those first. Did the same for open-jdk. After another failed attempt to uninstall, exited aptitude and created gpsd.sock using "sudo vim /var/run/gpsd.sock". Just inserted a space character and wrote the file. /etc/default/gpsd already existed.
Back to aptitude, completely uninstalled whatever packages were annoying me. Success.
Being late last night, turned off my computer. This morning I tried reinstalling gpsd through Synaptic. All went smooth and fine.
Hope this work for you too.
Oswaldo Gomez
-----Original Message-----
From: "Bernd Zeimetz" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: 02/11/2009 06:37 a.m.
Subject: Re: [Bug 468915] Re: package gpsd 2.39-5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10

Walter_Wittel wrote:
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printf
> + start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/gpsd -- -F /var/run/gpsd.sock -P /var/run/gpsd.pid

This looks pretty much right.
Could you run
/usr/sbin/gpsd -D 2 -N -F /var/run/gpsd.sock -P /var/run/gpsd.pid
on the console and see if gpsd starts properly - it should stay in the the
foreground and produce a lot of debug output.
If that works well - could the problem reside in usplash? Seems you're using
that, and I remember that it had a similar bug in Debian. Not exactly sure any
more, though.

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package gpsd 2.39-5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
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