package redmine 1.1.3-2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

[cordh]

Occurred during installation of oneiric Beta. Not sure why. My system is AMD64

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: redmine 1.1.3-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.49-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 5 07:13:49 2011
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100914)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: redmine
Title: package redmine 1.1.3-2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-05 (0 days ago)

[Moussouni Mehdi (mmoussouni47)]

it occured in the same situation.

[John (vanuan)]

This is because redmine requires version of rails <=2.3.8

[John (vanuan)]

If one could install multiple rails versions it would be great.

[John (vanuan)]

redmine 1.2.0 can be installed with rails 2.3.11 (and maybe 2.3.14), but ubuntu redmine package is 1.1.3
Upgrading redmine to the latest might help.

[kapouer (kapouer)]

This works on debian :
redmine 1.2.1+dfsg2-2
ruby-rails-2.3 2.3.14-2
rubygems 1.7.2-1

Most problems come from rails. Patch updates often break redmine or are incompatible with xx version of rubygems.

[John (vanuan)]

This works on debian :
redmine 1.2.1+dfsg2-2

Yes! But ubuntu has
redmine 1.1.3-2
which doesn't work

[John (vanuan)]

It is the second time redmine installation broken for me. I think I'll abandon using ubuntu redmine package and will install redmine manually...

[kapouer (kapouer)]

Since no one asked me, i couldn't fix 1.1.3 just before oneiric was released. Too bad.
I'll try to provide a patch soon.

[lucnoc (lucnoc)]

For me it turns out that the problem was that RMagick did not like the version of ImageMagick; i.e. in 11.10

sudo apt-get install redmine

fails with a version mismatch for ImageMagick.

I could install Redmine avoiding the ImageMagick version check by following directions in this post:

http://happy-coding.com/rmagick-is-not-accepting-imagemagick-version/

and adding RMAGICK_BYPASS_VERSION_TEST = true in /usr/share/redmine/config/environment.rb

[lucnoc (lucnoc)]

Forgot to mention in my previous post that I also enabled this PPA https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/redmine for Redmine 1.2.