Comment 19 for bug 294389

Hi!

I suppose that Your advices helped. I performed those two
steps and now i don't anymore get that error message
during updating.

Thanks!

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:13:44 -0000
  Chris Coulson <email address hidden> wrote:
> ** Description changed:
>
> Was updating via update manager, after new installation
>when this error
> occured.
>
> Binary package hint: system-tools-backends
>
> on an elitegroup AM2+ motherboard with AMD Athlon 64 X2
>BE-2400
> processor, 4gb of ram
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script
>returned error exit status 1
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: system-tools-backends 2.6.0-1ubuntu1.1
> SourcePackage: system-tools-backends
> Title: package system-tools-backends 2.6.0-1ubuntu1.1
>failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation
>script returned error exit status 1
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64
>
> ***TEMPORARY WORKAROUND***
> After the upgrade has failed, you will get an error
>every time you run dpkg or apt-get saying that
>system-tools-backends is not configured. "sudo dpkg
>--configure -a" will not fix this. To recover, please
>perform the following 2 steps:
>
> 1) sudo invoke-rc.d system-tools-backends stop
> 2) sudo dpkg --configure -a
> +
> + ***TEST CASE FOR SRU***
> + 1) With current version (2.6.0-1ubuntu1.1) of
>system-tools-backends installed, open up 2 terminals.
> + 2) In the first terminal, type "users-admin", but
>don't press enter to run it yet.
> + 3) In the second terminal, run "sudo apt-get install
>--reinstall system-tools-backends".
> + 4) As soon as this line appears in the second
>terminal, hit enter in the first terminal to run
>users-admin: "* Stopping System Tools Backends
>system-tools-backends"
> +
> + The reinstall will fail. Once this has happened follow
>the workaround
> + above to recover, then upgrade to 2.6.0-1ubuntu1.2.
> +
> + Once upgraded, repeat steps 1 - 4, and note that the
>reinstall never
> + fails.
>
> --
> package system-tools-backends 2.6.0-1ubuntu1.1 failed to
>install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script
>returned error exit status 1
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/294389
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in “system-tools-backends” source package in
>Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Was updating via update manager, after new installation
>when this error occured.
>
> Binary package hint: system-tools-backends
>
> on an elitegroup AM2+ motherboard with AMD Athlon 64 X2
>BE-2400 processor, 4gb of ram
>
> ProblemType: Package
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script
>returned error exit status 1
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: system-tools-backends 2.6.0-1ubuntu1.1
> SourcePackage: system-tools-backends
> Title: package system-tools-backends 2.6.0-1ubuntu1.1
>failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation
>script returned error exit status 1
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64
>
> ***TEMPORARY WORKAROUND***
> After the upgrade has failed, you will get an error
>every time you run dpkg or apt-get saying that
>system-tools-backends is not configured. "sudo dpkg
>--configure -a" will not fix this. To recover, please
>perform the following 2 steps:
>
> 1) sudo invoke-rc.d system-tools-backends stop
> 2) sudo dpkg --configure -a
>
> ***TEST CASE FOR SRU***
> 1) With current version (2.6.0-1ubuntu1.1) of
>system-tools-backends installed, open up 2 terminals.
> 2) In the first terminal, type "users-admin", but don't
>press enter to run it yet.
> 3) In the second terminal, run "sudo apt-get install
>--reinstall system-tools-backends".
> 4) As soon as this line appears in the second terminal,
>hit enter in the first terminal to run users-admin: "*
>Stopping System Tools Backends system-tools-backends"
>
> The reinstall will fail. Once this has happened follow
>the workaround above to recover, then upgrade to
>2.6.0-1ubuntu1.2.
>
> Once upgraded, repeat steps 1 - 4, and note that the
>reinstall never fails.