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system-tools-backends package

  1. Bug #294389
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 294389

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Peter McKenna (peter-mckenna) wrote : Re: [Bug 294389] Re: package system-tools-backends 2.6.0-1ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

I was doing this update across a wireless connection. I did not have any
other admin consoles open, but nm-applet was running on the toolbar.
Regards,
Peter

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 21:39 +0000, Chris Coulson wrote:
> The current theory for this bug is that the system-tools-backends daemon
> gets restarted (by DBUS) sometime after dpkg stops the daemon in order
> to perform the upgrade. This will then cause the init script to fail
> when the package is configured and it tries to start the daemon again
> (which shouldn't happen anyway).
>
> If that is the case then this is not a problem in Jaunty, as the latest
> version includes a check in the init script to see if system-tools-
> backends is already running before it tries to start it again with
> start-stop-daemon.
>
> However, for this failure to happen, something has to send a message to
> the system tools backends service over the system bus. This could happen
> by opening any one of these tools: time-admin, users-admin, shares-
> admin, network-admin or services-admin. Does anyone who experienced this
> problem remember what else they were doing at the time that the package
> was upgraded? If so, then that might be a great help.
>
> Thanks
>