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system-tools-backends package

  1. Bug #294389
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 294389

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Peter McKenna (peter-mckenna) wrote :

This error happened after Upgrade Manager attempted its routine update today. Update Manager failed and suggested running 'dpkg --configure -a' to fix the problem. I ran this as root and it reported a failure to run system-tools-backends.
Reboot was successful, but now whenever Synaptic or Update Manager is run it seems to successfully install packages but ends with the same system-tools-backends subprocess error.
The apt/term.log showed:
Log started: 2008-11-06 15:30:32
Setting up system-tools-backends (2.6.0-1ubuntu1.1) ...
 * Starting System Tools Backends system-tools-backends
invoke-rc.d: initscript system-tools-backends, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing system-tools-backends (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 system-tools-backends
Log ended: 2008-11-06 15:30:35