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package ifupdown 0.7.5ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade

Bug #1181695 reported by Fabio Marconi on 2013-05-19

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1181856: Conffile prompt for /etc/init.d/networking on update to 0.7.5ubuntu3. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ifupdown (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Release of Ubuntu:13.10
Package Version:
Expected Results:
Actual Results:

Hallo
it crash during upgrade.
At the request to keep or not the customized network conf file I reply keep.

Thanks
Fabio

ProblemType: PackageDistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ifupdown 0.7.5ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.9.0-2.6-generic 3.9.2
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-2-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.10.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 19 10:59:02 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:ifupdown:0.7.5ubuntu3:
ErrorMessage:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-12 (218 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20121011)
MarkForUpload: TrueSourcePackage: ifupdown
Title: package ifupdown 0.7.5ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-05-01 (17 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.init.d.networking: [deleted]

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote on 2013-05-19:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstatetargz.gz Edit (1.2 MiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (126.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (58.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeHistorylog.gz Edit (19.6 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.gz Edit (783 bytes, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (38.9 KiB, application/x-gzip)

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2013-05-19

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) on 2013-05-19

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Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote on 2013-05-19:

So going through the logs, it shows that you or some script you ran removed /etc/init.d/networking on the system before you upgraded to saucy.

dpkg then asked you whether you wanted that file restored from the package and you said no, as a result the file is still missing and so the postinst fails as it (obviously) can't call it.

I'm not seeing anything that'd suggest that the removal of /etc/init.d/networking happened automatically (caused by some other package) and I can't reproduce that upgrade on a clean system here.

If you do manage to reproduce this on a clean raring => saucy update, please re-open the bug report.

Changed in ifupdown (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote on 2013-05-19:

Got another report of this issue, so maybe it's not caused by user action after all, tentatively marking this bug as a duplicate of the other.

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2013-05-19:

Fabio, to correct this error you will nevertheless need to install the new version of the conffile to /etc/init.d/networking. You should be able to do this with 'sudo mv /etc/init.d/networking.dpkg-dist /etc/init.d/networking && sudo dpkg --configure -a'.