package quota 4.00-3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Loek Engels]

Installing quota-4 fails on a clean 12.04 (beta2) system.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: quota 4.00-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 7 09:57:17 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120327.1)
SourcePackage: quota
Title: package quota 4.00-3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[James Page (james-page)]

Looks like this might be a file system consistency issue:

Setting up quota (4.00-3) ...
 * Checking quotas...  quotacheck: lstat Cannot stat `//home/loekje/.gvfs': Permission denied
Guess you'd better run fsck first !
exiting...
quotacheck: lstat Cannot stat `//home/loekje/.gvfs': Permission denied
Guess you'd better run fsck first !
exiting...
invoke-rc.d: initscript quota, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing quota (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Please could you try fsck'ing the filesystem first and re-attempt the install.

Marking 'Low' (I can install quota in precise) and 'Incomplete' pending outcome of suggested action.

Thanks

[Loek Engels (loek-engels)]

A reboot did not fix the problem: running dpkg under unity failed.
However, booting into single user mode allowed quota to succesfully configure (using dpkg).
Is it necessary for quota to configure under single user mode, if so how come dpkg configure does not take care of this or show a warning

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for quota (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Tomas Cassidy (tomas-cassidy)]

Just ran into this bug while doing "sudo apt-get install quota" in a Terminal window.

[David Lee Lambert (davidl)]

Workaround: in my case, I fixed it by doing

$ fusermount -u ~/.gvfs

and trying to install again.