package libapache2-mod-php5 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Bharat]

After upgrade apache2 restart failed due to old configuration.

After that I re installed apache2 but then php5 started failing.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: libapache2-mod-php5 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
AptOrdering:
 libapache2-mod-php5: Configure
 php5: Configure
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 18 16:12:42 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:libapache2-mod-php5:5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-29 (49 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: php5
Title: package libapache2-mod-php5 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-18 (0 days ago)
modified.conffile..etc.apache2.mods.available.php5.conf: [deleted]
modified.conffile..etc.apache2.mods.available.php5.load: [deleted]

[Yolanda Robla (yolanda.robla)]

php5_invoke pdo: already enabled for apache2 SAPI
dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-php5 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Raju Gautam (raju-rachana)]

php5_invoke readline: already enabled for apache2 SAPI
dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-php5 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php5:
 php5 depends on libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2) | libapache2-mod-php5filter (>= 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2) | php5-cgi (>= 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2) | php5-fpm (>= 5.5.3+dfsg-1ubuntu2); however:
  Package libapache2-mod-php5 is not configured yet.
  Package libapache2-mod-php5filter is not installed.
  Package php5-cgi is not installed.
  Package php5-fpm is not installed.

dpkg: error processing php5 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 libapache2-mod-php5
 php5
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Oguzhan Alan (5-mail-y)]

Same here:
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 libapache2-mod-php5
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Someone any solution found to this??

[Flittermice (flittermice)]

I'm not sure because I moved to Arch in the meantime, but I think I solved the problems by installing "libapache2-mod-php5filter" instead. Didn't have any problems with that.

[Oguzhan Alan (5-mail-y)]

Thank you Flittermice but i have still the same err with libapache2-mod-php5filter

dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von libapache2-mod-php5filter (--configure):
 Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 libapache2-mod-php5filter
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[goofrider (goofrider)]

I have the same problem here. Install and postinst went fine but dpkg still thinks postinst failed.

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php5_invoke pdo: already enabled for apache2 SAPI
php5_invoke opcache: already enabled for apache2 SAPI
php5_invoke pdo_pgsql: already enabled for apache2 SAPI
php5_invoke mysql: already enabled for apache2 SAPI
php5_invoke readline: already enabled for apache2 SAPI
php5_invoke pgsql: already enabled for apache2 SAPI
php5_invoke json: already enabled for apache2 SAPI
php5_invoke mysqli: already enabled for apache2 SAPI
php5_invoke pdo_mysql: already enabled for apache2 SAPI
dpkg: error processing package libapache2-mod-php5 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libapache2-mod-php5
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[goofrider (goofrider)]

Judging from the output from libapache2-mod-php5filter...

----
  php5_invoke: Enable module mysqli for apache2filter SAPI
  php5_invoke: Enable module pdo_mysql for apache2filter SAPI
  apache2_invoke: Enable module php5filter
   * Restarting web server apache2
----

In /var/lib/dpkg/info/libapache2-mod-php5.postinst...

----
# Automatically added by dh_apache2
if php5_enable; then
        if [ -e /usr/share/apache2/apache2-maintscript-helper ] ; then
                . /usr/share/apache2/apache2-maintscript-helper
                for conf in php5 ; do
                        apache2_invoke enmod $conf || exit $?
                done
        fi
fi
# End automatically added section
----

Since php5_enable() always produce an error msg before it exit with status 1, and apache2_invoke was never called, it looks like the only culprit would be "for conf in php5" returned nothing.

It looks like I previously have apache2 and mod-php5 installed and I moved the entire /etc/apache2 elsewhere to solve a previous apache2 upgrade problem, so that might have contributed to it. Looks to me /etc/apache2/mods-available/php5.{conf,load} weren't there and normal remove/reinstall doesn't check for it to put them back. purge/reinstall fixed it.

[John (jgmuchiri)]

This seems to be a dependency issue if you install libapache2-mod-php5 after apache2.

I fixed this using the following after installing apache2

sudo service apache2 stop

sudo service mysql stop

sudo apt-get purge libapache2-mod-php5

sudo apt-get autoremove

sudo apt-get clean

sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5