package rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Seannon]

Binary package hint: rsyslog

crashed after upgrading and restarting

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 21 13:58:39 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
SourcePackage: rsyslog
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Title: package rsyslog 4.2.0-2ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic x86_64

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Here is the error:

Setting up rsyslog (4.2.0-2ubuntu5) ...^M
Installing new version of config file /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog ...^M
Rather than invoking init scripts through /etc/init.d, use the service(8)^M
utility, e.g. service rsyslog restart^M
^M
Since the script you are attempting to invoke has been converted to an^M
Upstart job, you may also use the restart(8) utility, e.g. restart rsyslog^M
restart: Unknown instance: ^M
invoke-rc.d: initscript rsyslog, action "restart" failed.^M
dpkg: error processing rsyslog (--configure):^M
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1^M

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

It looks like that for some reason there is no instance given, upstart will print the instance name for a unknown instance. In this case it seems to be whitespace (a complettely empty one is not accepted by upstart).

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

This is the message given when no rsyslog instance is already running when restarting. The bit that restarts rsyslog should probably use '|| true'.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

This is by design... upstart intentionally fails when a restart is requested but the service isn't running. And a package that installs an init file is intentionally restarted. I suspect the debhelper bit that restarts should check first if it's running and not try to restart if not.

Seannon, did you ever manually stop rsyslog or the like?

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

(smarter upstart logic upon upgrading will happen in the Lucid cycle, Keybuk assures me)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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