Comment 12 for bug 7226

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Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 02:33:06 -0700
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: Shot <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#262148: php4: fails post-installation; returned error exit status 20

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reassign 262148 bash
severity 262148 grave
merge 262619 262148
thanks

This bug appears to be a bug in bash that has broken apache-modconf, as
already identified by the Apache maintainers.

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Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 08:22:14PM +0200, Shot wrote:
> Hello.
>=20
> Steve Langasek:
>=20
> > You'll have to provide more information about your system; there
> > doesn't seem to be a problem in general with installing this package.
>=20
> Well, I don't know what exactly would be a useful information -
> it's a freshly installed[1] sarge upgraded to sid. Can you test
> a fresh install on an i386 (as opposed to alpha) machine?
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> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D261899
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> > In particular, this section of your log looks very suspicious:
> >=20
> > > Setting up php4 (4.3.8-3) ...
> > > /
> > > /
> > > dpkg: error processing php4 (--configure):
> > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 20
> > > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > > php4
> > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > > Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to re=
cover:
> > > Setting up php4 (4.3.8-3) ...
> > > /home/shot
> > > /home/shot
> > > dpkg: error processing php4 (--configure):
> >=20
> > There is no reason why the php4 postinst script would be outputting
> > directory names on its own. Something else seems to be broken on your
> > system.
>=20
> The strange thing is, when I wanted to purge
> php4 and try again, I couldn't; all I got was
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> (Reading database ... 69140 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing php4 ...
> /
> /
> dpkg: error processing php4 (--purge):
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 20
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> php4
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recove=
r:
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> When I tried to `dpkg -i`-downgrade 4.3.8-3 to 4.3.3-2 I got exit status
> 128, but the system somehow thought it's got php4 4.3.3-2 anyway; when
> I told aptitude to upgrade this back to 4.3.8-3 it worked flawlessly.
>=20
> Pozdrav
> -- Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)
> --=20
> .--- http://shot.pl/ --- http://shot.pl/wycinki/ --- -- -
> | Java programmers are so in love with abstraction, they forget to code.
> | -- Pim van Riezen
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