Comment 27 for bug 294389

Indeed, the workaround worked smoothly; 248 updates were installed without
hitch. Thanks a lot
Gerry de Guzman

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Trifunos <email address hidden> wrote:

> Many thanks. I'll test it today
> Don't apologies your English is perfect :)
> Cordially
> Sashko Trifunovski
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:59 AM, mpx <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> > ***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
> >
> >
> > this works...
> >
> > thanks..
> >
> > sorry for my english..
> >
> > --
> > 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
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
>
>
> --
> Saso Trifunovski
>
> --
> 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
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "system-tools-backends" source package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in system-tools-backends in Ubuntu Intrepid: New
> Status in system-tools-backends in Ubuntu Jaunty: 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.
>