Comment 2 for bug 222091

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Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst) wrote : Re: package snort-mysql 2.7.0-14 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 6

Snort will not start as its database is not yet configured:

Setting up snort-mysql (2.7.0-14) ...
 * Stopping Network Intrusion Detection System snort
 * No running snort instance found
 * Starting Network Intrusion Detection System snort
 * /etc/snort/db-pending-config file found
 * Snort will not start as its database is not yet configured.
 * Please configure the database as described in
 * /usr/share/doc/snort-{pgsql,mysql}/README-database.Debian
 * and remove /etc/snort/db-pending-config
invoke-rc.d: initscript snort, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing snort-mysql (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 6