Comment 15 for bug 14927

Message-Id: <1112362244.12352.125.camel@thanatos>
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:30:43 +0200
From: Thomas Hood <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#302519: ifupdown: postinst fails if /dev/shm/network/ does
 not exist

On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 10:45 +0200, Stefan Kluth wrote:
> Setting up ifupdown (0.6.4-4.12) ...

>From which version did you upgrade?

> ifupdown.postinst: Error: The canonical path of /etc/network/run could
> not be determined. Aborting.

Do you have the /lib/init/readlink program? Please send the output of
"ls -l /lib/init/readlink".

Please do "grep PATH /var/lib/dpkg/info/ifupdown.postinst".

It will be helpful if you can reproduce the failure. Please remove the
package with "dpkg --remove --force-depends" and reinstall it. (Make
sure you have the package available locally so you don't need to access
the network in order to reinstall.)

You may have to install the version of ifupdown you had before, and
upgrade to 0.6.4-4.12, in order to reproduce the problem.

If the postinst fails again then please send the output of

    ls -l /etc/network
    ls -l /etc/network/run
    ls -l /dev/shm
    ls -l /dev/shm/network
    /lib/init/readlink -f /etc/network/run
    /bin/readlink -f /etc/network/run
    cat /proc/mounts

> dpkg: error processing ifupdown (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> ifupdown
>
> After googling for a few minutes I found that

Can you give me the URL where you saw information about this problem?

--
Thomas Hood <email address hidden>