package lirc (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[turul69]

Binary package hint: lirc

i upgraded my system from 9.04 to 9.10

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 30 16:14:12 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: lirc (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: lirc
Title: package lirc (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[HX_unbanned (linards-liepins)]

I was Canceling the IR Transmitter and Control Setup while installing LIRC on Ubuntu 9.10 from Synaptics.

[MarcRandolph (mrand)]

Howdy, and thank you for helping to improve lirc and Ubuntu by opening this ticket. The DpkgTerminalLog attached by turul69 has the following:

Setting up lirc (0.8.6-0ubuntu2) ...

reload: Unknown instance:

invoke-rc.d: initscript udev, action "reload" failed.

@turul69: did you resolve this issue, or is it still occuring?

Note to others: unfortunately the top-level error message (in this case "package lirc (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1") is a very generic message and the underlying reason for that message can be different. Before saying that this bug affects you too, please check your DpkgTerminalLog and if it doesn't have the above message referring to "initscript udev, action "reload" failed." towards the end, please open a new ticket.

[turul69 (miklos.keresztes)]

I switched to an other distribution.

[Lorens Kockum (s-launchpad-tagged-lorens-org)]

I have got exactly the same error. I am upgrading a stock fit2pc from ubuntu 8.04 LTS directly to Lucid Lynx.

root@ubuntu-fitpc2:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up lirc (0.8.6-0ubuntu4.1) ...
reload: Unknown instance:
invoke-rc.d: initscript udev, action "reload" failed.
dpkg: error processing lirc (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lirc-x:
 lirc-x depends on lirc (= 0.8.6-0ubuntu4.1); however:
  Package lirc is not configured yet.
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          dpkg: error processing lirc-x (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 lirc
 lirc-x
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@ubuntu-fitpc2:~#

My first instinct is to remove lirc, but the upgrade is not urgent, so if somebody wishes to look closer at this I'd be happy to help.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi, can you please try again with the latest lirc from zesty (a.k.a. upcoming 17.04 version), and set the status back to "new" in case you still experience such issue?
You can also try it from my ppa, where I backported it to xenial and yakkety releases (16.04 and 16.10)
https://launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/ubuntu/costamagnagianfranco-ppa

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for lirc (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]