package initramfs-tools 0.103ubuntu15 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Václav Šmilauer]

AUtomatic bug report after upgrade to vivid.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: initramfs-tools 0.103ubuntu15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-46.79-lowlatency 3.13.11-ckt15
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-46-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 19 13:16:50 2015
DuplicateSignature: package:initramfs-tools:0.103ubuntu15:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
PackageArchitecture: all
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.17.25ubuntu1
 apt 1.0.9.7ubuntu4
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
Title: package initramfs-tools 0.103ubuntu15 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2012-03-12 (1132 days ago)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

It looks like there are two problems here, there is something wrong with your eatmydata configuration and initramfs-tools tries to act on the error messages regarding eatmydata.

ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/libeatmydata/libeatmydata.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.
cp: cannot stat ‘ERROR:’: No such file or directory
E: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/fuse failed with return 1.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Do you have the package libeatmydata1 installed?

[Václav Šmilauer (eudoxos)]

Oh, I did not at first see that the bugreport is related to eatmydata. libeatmydata changed the .so localtion between utopic and vivid (from /usr/lib to /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu), but the LD_PRELOAD was set only once before starting aptitutde (sudo eatmydata aptitude) and hence was pointing to the old .so which ceased to exist after the package upgrade. Sorry for the noise. So I think this bugreport is invalid, unless this special transition should be handled specially.

[martin suchanek (martin-suc)]

Not problem only described in #2.

[Václav Šmilauer (eudoxos)]

ld.so's message "... cannot be preloaded ..." is from glibc-2.21/elf/rtld.c -- http://osxr.org/glibc/source/elf/rtld.c#0818 . It means initramfs-tools is reading stderr and parses the output. It is not clear from the output where exactly this happens.

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

This was an upgrade issue, triggered by the use of libeastmydata over the upgrade. Closing out Invalid.