package secvpn 2.21+nmu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Vitaliy Kulikov]

Binary package hint: secvpn

$ sudo apt-get install secvpn
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  secvpn
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 224kB of archives.
After this operation, 397kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe secvpn 2.21+nmu1 [224kB]
Fetched 224kB in 7s (31.8kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package secvpn.
(Reading database ... 200428 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking secvpn (from .../secvpn_2.21+nmu1_all.deb) ...
Adding system user `secvpn' (UID 123) ...
Adding new user `secvpn' (UID 123) with group `nogroup' ...
Creating home directory `/usr/share/secvpn' ...
Processing triggers for sreadahead ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up secvpn (2.21+nmu1) ...
Starting Monitor Daemon for Secure Virtual Private Network: cp: cannot stat `/etc/inittab': No such file or directory
invoke-rc.d: initscript secvpnmon, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing secvpn (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 secvpn
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
AptOrdering:
 secvpn: Install
 secvpn: Configure
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 30 00:38:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: secvpn 2.21+nmu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic-pae
SourcePackage: secvpn
Title: package secvpn 2.21+nmu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 152968, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.