package mosquitto 2.0.10-3 failed to install/upgrade: installed mosquitto package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

Bug #1928302 reported by Dragos CIULICA
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mosquitto (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Occured during the upgrade and I was directed to this bug-report page. I had to ignore the error and the upgrade was complete.

```
Could not install the upgrades

The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A
recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).

Setting up mosquitto (2.0.10-3) ...
chown: cannot access '/run/mosquitto': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package mosquitto (--configure):
 installed mosquitto package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mosquitto

Upgrade complete

The upgrade has completed but there were errors during the upgrade
process.

To continue please press [ENTER]
```

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.04
Package: mosquitto 2.0.10-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-53.60-generic 5.8.18
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-53-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu65
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
Date: Thu May 13 09:03:50 2021
DuplicateSignature:
 package:mosquitto:2.0.10-3
 Installing new version of config file /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf ...
 chown: cannot access '/run/mosquitto': No such file or directory
 dpkg: error processing package mosquitto (--configure):
  installed mosquitto package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: installed mosquitto package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-03-21 (52 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.9, Python 3.9.4, python3-minimal, 3.9.4-1
PythonDetails: N/A
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.20.9ubuntu1
 apt 2.2.3
SourcePackage: mosquitto
Title: package mosquitto 2.0.10-3 failed to install/upgrade: installed mosquitto package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to hirsute on 2021-05-13 (0 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Dragos CIULICA (dragos-ciulica) wrote :
tags: removed: need-duplicate-check
Revision history for this message
Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

Hello, please try 2.0.15 or newer from mantic (23.10) and set back the status to new if still an issue. thanks!

Changed in mosquitto (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
status: Fix Released → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in mosquitto (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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