package redmine 1.3.2+dfsg1-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[txemi]

Upgrading redmine.
Upgrading distribution to 12.04 redmine did not clean upgrade bbdd, reported failure, and app did not work again.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: redmine 1.3.2+dfsg1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic-pae 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jun 1 15:30:49 2012
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: redmine
Title: package redmine 1.3.2+dfsg1-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-06-01 (0 days ago)

[txemi (txemitron)]

Hi, I am original reporter.

Now my upgrade failed installation of redmine seems to work.

After solving other not related to redmine apache starting problems after distro upgrade I can log in in redmine and see my projects.

I do not know about the consecuences of the redmine upgrade failure. Neither do I know if some data model upgrade should have be done leaving data corrupted. I have navigated from redmine web UI and I can see my projects and tasks.

Thank you,
txemi.

[kapouer (kapouer)]

Please reinstall or reconfigure redmine to make sure DB was migrated properly.

The thing with redmine package is that installation fails if no DB is reachable.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[kapouer (kapouer)]

when configured by dbconfig, redmine need a running database to upgrade.
But there are times when even a nicely configured database may not be running, like upgrading
redmine and the database server as the same time.

[Miquel (miquelj)]

Same error here with a 64bits server upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04. After some initial tests seems redmine is working perfectly.
I am scared to apply the upgrade to precise on production.

[Matthias Kretz (mkretz)]

I just encountered this problem (but with mysql running). "mkdir /usr/share/redmine/tmp" made the script work. In my case the tmp directory was required by the gitosis redmine plugin.