package procps 1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.2 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1

[tulainas]

 It's been a couple of weeks now since i haven't been able to update this software and I don't have a clue why...

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: procps 1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-42.65~precise1-generic 3.5.7.21
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-42-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 9 00:21:52 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:procps:1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.2:le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
ErrorMessage: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20130213)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: procps
Title: package procps 1:3.2.8-11ubuntu6.2 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.sysctl.conf: 2013-07-25T15:39:45.551692

[Peter Cordes (peter-cordes)]

You can't put comments on the same line as an entry. sysctl writes "10 # el valor original es 60, pero no existía en el archivo original" to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness and gets an error.

 It actually takes it two write(2) system calls to write the whole string. The kernel reads the first 3 characters, which is "10 ", then sysctl has to try again to write the trailing invalid value stuff. Maybe sysctl could use this to detect cases where people have trailing stuff on config lines?