package initscripts 2.88dsf-41ubuntu6.1 failed to install/upgrade: el subprocés s'ha instaŀlat el script post-installation retornà el codi d'eixida d'error 2

[Pol Roca]

/var/lib/dpkg/info/initscripts.postinst line 482

for F in /var/log/dmesg /var/log/fsck/checkroot /var/log/fsck/checkfs

yields an exit with error in processes with i.e. apt-get update

Commenting #/var/log/fsck/checkfs and executing dpkg --configure -a solves the problem each time it occurs.

But since I don't know it could cause any sort of further problem, I uncomment the line again after solving the problem, until it occurs again...

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: initscripts 2.88dsf-41ubuntu6.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-34.60-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.8
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 12 14:33:47 2015
DuplicateSignature: package:initscripts:2.88dsf-41ubuntu6.1:el subprocés s'ha instaŀlat el script post-installation retornà el codi d'eixida d'error 2
ErrorMessage: el subprocés s'ha instaŀlat el script post-installation retornà el codi d'eixida d'error 2
InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-10-29 (1260 days ago)
InstallationMedia: 111025Dist - Release i386
SourcePackage: sysvinit
Title: package initscripts 2.88dsf-41ubuntu6.1 failed to install/upgrade: el subprocés s'ha instaŀlat el script post-installation retornà el codi d'eixida d'error 2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-07-18 (267 days ago)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hi Pol,

The full error in your upgrade log is:

S'està configurant initscripts (2.88dsf-41ubuntu6.1)…
/var/lib/dpkg/info/initscripts.postinst: 486: /var/lib/dpkg/info/initscripts.postinst: cannot create /var/log/fsck/checkfs: Is a directory
dpkg: s'ha produït un error en processar el paquet initscripts (--configure):
 el subprocés s'ha instaŀlat el script post-installation retornà el codi d'eixida d'error 2

The initscripts package is not expecting /var/log/fsck/checkfs to be a directory, but a file. Looking on my system, /var/log/fsck/checkfs is definitely a file. Do you know why this is a directory on your system? What are the contents of this directory?

To resolve this problem, you should be able to just remove this directory, and initscripts will recreate this as a file.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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