package openafs-client 1.6.1-1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Laurynas Riliskis]

crash occured during uppgrade from 11.10 to 12.04. The message I got was the the process could not be stoped, note here that I had not innitiated afs connection before the uppgrade. After restart afs is working fine.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: openafs-client 1.6.1-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 8 10:11:15 2012
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: openafs
Title: package openafs-client 1.6.1-1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-08 (0 days ago)

[Laurynas Riliskis (laurynas-riliskis-gmail)]

when updating packages the problem percist.
I tryed to reinstall the packete but getting not so descriptive error

E: openafs-client: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Laurynas Riliskis (laurynas-riliskis-gmail)]

Here is some more infor, when I was trying to solev the problem
I removed the open-afs packet
then run apt-get autoremove
reinstalled open-afs .
sudo apt-get install openafs-client
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  openafs-modules-dkms
Suggested packages:
  openafs-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  openafs-client openafs-modules-dkms
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,249 kB/5,042 kB of archives.
After this operation, 14.0 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe openafs-modules-dkms all 1.6.1-1 [1,249 kB]
Fetched 1,249 kB in 0s (7,804 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
openafs-client failed to preconfigure, with exit status 1
Selecting previously unselected package openafs-client.
(Reading database ... 328024 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking openafs-client (from .../openafs-client_1.6.1-1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package openafs-modules-dkms.
Unpacking openafs-modules-dkms (from .../openafs-modules-dkms_1.6.1-1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up openafs-client (1.6.1-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/pagsh.openafs to provide /usr/bin/pagsh (pagsh) in auto mode.
dpkg: error processing openafs-client (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up openafs-modules-dkms (1.6.1-1) ...
Loading new openafs-1.6.1 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 3.2.0-24-generic
Building initial module for 3.2.0-24-generic
Done.

openafs:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.2.0-24-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install completed.
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openafs-client
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

it seems that with the kernel updated the module does not get included.

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

What happens when you run
sudo /etc/init.d/openafs-client start
?

[Laurynas Riliskis (laurynas-riliskis-gmail)]

The afs is working, when manualy started as I stated previosly. However every update is givving same error messege.

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.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up openafs-client (1.6.1-1) ...
dpkg: error processing openafs-client (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openafs-client
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Björn Torkelsson (torkel)]

Have you tried:
sudo apt-get -f install
?

[Laurynas Riliskis (laurynas-riliskis-gmail)]

yes, I have tryed to remove afs kernel module and reinstall it, it gives same errors

sudo dpkg --debug=400 --configure openafs-client
D000400: checking group ...
D000400: checking possibility -> libc6
D000400: is installed, ok and found
D000400: found 3
D000400: found 3 matched 0 possfixbytrig -
D000400: checking group ...
D000400: checking possibility -> libkrb5-3
D000400: is installed, ok and found
D000400: found 3
D000400: found 3 matched 0 possfixbytrig -
D000400: checking group ...
D000400: checking possibility -> libncurses5
D000400: is installed, ok and found
D000400: found 3
D000400: found 3 matched 0 possfixbytrig -
D000400: checking group ...
D000400: checking possibility -> libtinfo5
D000400: is installed, ok and found
D000400: found 3
D000400: found 3 matched 0 possfixbytrig -
D000400: checking group ...
D000400: checking possibility -> debconf
D000400: is installed, ok and found
D000400: found 3
D000400: found 3 matched 0 possfixbytrig -
D000400: checking breaker openafs-krb5 virtbroken <none>
Setting up openafs-client (1.6.1-1) ...
dpkg: error processing openafs-client (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openafs-client

openafs-krb5 is installed.

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Hmm, I can’t see what’s going wrong from that log. Can you temporarily edit the top of /var/lib/dpkg/info/openafs-client.postinst to replace ‘set -e’ with ‘set -ex’ and try again?

[Laurynas Riliskis (laurynas-riliskis-gmail)]

I have tryed other debug flags with even less info. your suggested changes gives following output:
->sudo dpkg --debug=400 --configure openafs-client
D000400: checking group ...
D000400: checking possibility -> libc6
D000400: is installed, ok and found
D000400: found 3
D000400: found 3 matched 0 possfixbytrig -
D000400: checking group ...
D000400: checking possibility -> libkrb5-3
D000400: is installed, ok and found
D000400: found 3
D000400: found 3 matched 0 possfixbytrig -
D000400: checking group ...
D000400: checking possibility -> libncurses5
D000400: is installed, ok and found
D000400: found 3
D000400: found 3 matched 0 possfixbytrig -
D000400: checking group ...
D000400: checking possibility -> libtinfo5
D000400: is installed, ok and found
D000400: found 3
D000400: found 3 matched 0 possfixbytrig -
D000400: checking group ...
D000400: checking possibility -> debconf
D000400: is installed, ok and found
D000400: found 3
D000400: found 3 matched 0 possfixbytrig -
D000400: checking breaker openafs-krb5 virtbroken <none>
Setting up openafs-client (1.6.1-1) ...
+ [ configure = configure ]
+ update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/pagsh pagsh /usr/bin/pagsh.openafs 100 --slave /usr/share/man/man1/pagsh.1.gz pagsh.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/pagsh.openafs.1.gz
+ update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/klog klog /usr/bin/klog.afs 10 --slave /usr/share/man/man1/klog.1.gz klog.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/klog.afs.1.gz
+ test -d /afs
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
+ [ ! ]
+ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1
+ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY
+ [ ]
+ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/openafs-client.postinst configure 1.6.0-1
dpkg: error processing openafs-client (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openafs-client

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Huh. What do these three commands say?

debconf-show debconf
echo "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND"
sudo env DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer dpkg --configure openafs-client

[Laurynas Riliskis (laurynas-riliskis-gmail)]

->debconf-show debconf
debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied
  debconf-apt-progress/preparing:
  debconf/frontend: Dialog
  debconf-apt-progress/title:
  debconf/priority: high
  debconf-apt-progress/info:
  debconf-apt-progress/media-change:

->echo "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND"
empty output

sudo env DEBCONF_DEBUG=developer dpkg --configure openafs-client
[sudo] password for xxx:
Setting up openafs-client (1.6.1-1) ...
+ [ configure = configure ]
+ update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/pagsh pagsh /usr/bin/pagsh.openafs 100 --slave /usr/share/man/man1/pagsh.1.gz pagsh.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/pagsh.openafs.1.gz
+ update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/klog klog /usr/bin/klog.afs 10 --slave /usr/share/man/man1/klog.1.gz klog.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/klog.afs.1.gz
+ test -d /afs
+ . /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
+ [ ! ]
+ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1
+ export PERL_DL_NONLAZY
+ [ ]
+ exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/openafs-client.postinst configure 1.6.0-1
debconf (developer): frontend started
debconf (developer): frontend running, package name is openafs-client
debconf (developer): starting /var/lib/dpkg/info/openafs-client.config configure 1.6.0-1
debconf (developer): <-- VERSION 2.0
debconf (developer): --> 0 2.0
dpkg: error processing openafs-client (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openafs-client

[Torbjörn Moa (moa-physto)]

I have been experiencing the same problem, when upgrading to openafs-client 1.6.1-1+ubuntu0.1. After some testing I found the reason:

In /var/lib/dpkg/info/openafs-client.config, the statement

    read cell < /etc/openafs/ThisCell

croaked, because there was no newline after the cell name in ThisCell. Thus, you can easily get around the problem by making sure that ThisCell has a newline (CR) after the cell name.

Hope this helps. It certainly did for me.

[Aaron Staley (astaley)]

I have this same problem. Attempted the fix in #12 to no avail.