Comment 3 for bug 1740407

Thank you for responding to my question/posting. I hope to have a chance
to try your suggestions soon and let you know if I have any luck.

Mark Fossett

On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 9:10 AM, ChristianEhrhardt <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better.
>
> You could run:
> $ sudo apt update
> $ sudo apt upgrade
>
> And report the full output of your console here.
>
> Since so far there isn't enough information in your report to
> differentiate between a local configuration problem and a bug in Ubuntu,
> I'm marking this bug as Incomplete.
>
> If indeed this is a local configuration problem, you can find pointers
> to get help for this sort of problem here:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community
>
> Or if you believe that this is really a bug, then you may find it helpful
> to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.
> org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a
> more complete description of the problem, explain why you believe this is a
> bug in Ubuntu rather than a problem specific to your system, and then
> change the bug status back to New.
> very likely the configuration of this package is somehow broken and so on
> update it fails to restart. But the bug lacks any data that would help to
> analyze the case.
>
>
> ** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1740407
>
> Title:
> package ntpdate 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.11 failed to
> install/upgrade: EOF on stdin at conffile prompt
>
> Status in ntp package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I am not up on the technical jargon. But attempts to update are
> failing.
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
> Package: ntpdate 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.11
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-80.88~14.04.1-generic 3.19.8-ckt22
> Uname: Linux 3.19.0-80-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.27
> AptOrdering:
> libxml2: Install
> python-libxml2: Install
> ntpdate: Configure
> libxml2: Configure
> python-libxml2: Configure
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Mon Dec 25 07:36:58 2017
> DpkgTerminalLog:
> Log started: 2017-12-11 07:50:44
> Log ended: 2017-12-11 07:53:04
>
> Log started: 2017-12-25 07:36:55
> ErrorMessage: EOF on stdin at conffile prompt
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-09-26 (824 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64
> (20150805)
> RelatedPackageVersions:
> dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.6
> apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.17
> SourcePackage: ntp
> Title: package ntpdate 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3ubuntu2.14.04.11 failed to
> install/upgrade: EOF on stdin at conffile prompt
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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Mark Fossett