"libchipcard-tools" failed to install or upgrade

[David]

During upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 received the error "libchipcard-tools" failed to install or upgrade.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: libchipcard-tools 4.1.3-2
SourcePackage: libchipcard
Title: package libchipcard-tools 4.1.3-2 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[rerdey (raymond-m-erdey)]

If this package is not needed, I could try to remove it... :-)

dpkg --configure -a
Setting up libchipcard-tools (4.1.3-2) ...
Starting libchipcard daemon: invoke-rc.d: initscript libchipcard-tools, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing libchipcard-tools (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libchipcard-tools

[Micha Lenk (micha)]

Looks like there is something with the Ubuntu system user management broken.
From VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz:

Setting up libchipcard-tools (4.1.3-2) ...
Adding chipcard-tools daemon account to the system...
Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator
chfn: PAM authentication failed
adduser: `/usr/bin/chfn -f Chipcard-Tools Daemon Account chipcard' returned error code 1. Exiting.
dpkg: error processing libchipcard-tools (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

BTW and just for the records: I doubt that this bug is related to http://bugs.debian.org/509399

[Max (nanodeath)]

I also got the error as rerdey describes, except for me it was upon upgrading to 9.04:

Setting up libchipcard-tools (4.1.3-2ubuntu1) ...
Starting libchipcard daemon: invoke-rc.d: initscript libchipcard-tools, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing libchipcard-tools (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libchipcard-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up libchipcard-tools (4.1.3-2ubuntu1) ...
Starting libchipcard daemon: invoke-rc.d: initscript libchipcard-tools, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing libchipcard-tools (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libchipcard-tools

[Max (nanodeath)]

Actually, sudo aptitude remove libchipcard-tools && sudo aptitude install libchipcard-tools seems to get it working...

[Zoltan A. (zantliff)]

Thanks Max.