Netatalk fails to install

[Ian Weisser]

Binary package hint: netatalk

ian@cheesebot-supremo:~$ aptitude
Selecting previously deselected package netatalk.
(Reading database ... 202964 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace netatalk 2.0.3-6ubuntu1 (using .../netatalk_2.0.3-6ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
hostname: Unknown host
invoke-rc.d: initscript netatalk, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
hostname: Unknown host
invoke-rc.d: initscript netatalk, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/netatalk_2.0.3-6ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
hostname: Unknown host
invoke-rc.d: initscript netatalk, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/netatalk_2.0.3-6ubuntu1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
dpkg: error processing netatalk (--configure):
 Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
 reinstall it before attempting configuration.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 netatalk
Press return to continue.

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Fixed by changing two files:
1) /etc/default/netatalk
FROM: ATALK_NAME=`/bin/hostname --short`
TO: ATALK_NAME=`/bin/hostname`

2) /etc/init.d/netatalk
FROM: ATALK_NAME=`/bin/hostname --short`
TO: ATALK_NAME=`/bin/hostname`

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After the changes, seems to work normally: (Hooray!)

ian@cheesebot-supremo:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade netatalk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up netatalk (2.0.3-6ubuntu1) ...
Starting Netatalk services (this will take a while): eth1: disabled.
 atalkd afpd papd.

ian@cheesebot-supremo:~$

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 28 10:27:41 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
Uname: Linux cheesebot-supremo 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Efrain Valles (effie-jayx)]

I can confirm this bug. It fails to install.

[Fredrik Bränström (branstrom)]

Hmm. netatalk runs on my box - only, it shows "localhost" to the clients, and then Finder on OS X thinks every server is the same computer.

Fixed it by changing /bin/hostname --short to /bin/hostname, though.

Is there a reason this hasn't been made the default behavior yet?

[Ian Weisser (ian-weisser)]

This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 109917, so it is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report.