Comment 0 for bug 1819434

Tested on three different systems. It seems something is broken in the packaging of tenshi. Installation stalls for several minutes and then fails.

$ sudo apt install tenshi
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libio-bufferedselect-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libio-bufferedselect-perl tenshi
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Get:1 http://helsinki-1.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 libio-bufferedselect-perl all 1.0-1 [7836 B]
Get:2 http://helsinki-1.clouds.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 tenshi all 0.13-2+deb7u1 [28.8 kB]
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Selecting previously unselected package libio-bufferedselect-perl.
(Reading database ... 33410 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libio-bufferedselect-perl_1.0-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking libio-bufferedselect-perl (1.0-1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package tenshi.
Preparing to unpack .../tenshi_0.13-2+deb7u1_all.deb ...
Unpacking tenshi (0.13-2+deb7u1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.13) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
Setting up libio-bufferedselect-perl (1.0-1) ...
Setting up tenshi (0.13-2+deb7u1) ...
Adding tenshi system user ...
adduser: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/tenshi' does not belong to the user you are currently creating.
Adding user tenshi to group adm
Job for tenshi.service failed because a timeout was exceeded.
See "systemctl status tenshi.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript tenshi, action "start" failed.
● tenshi.service - LSB: tenshi log monitoring and reporting tool
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/tenshi; generated)
   Active: failed (Result: timeout) since Mon 2019-03-11 10:06:35 UTC; 206ms ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 2792 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/tenshi start (code=killed, signal=TERM)
    Tasks: 3 (limit: 2320)
   CGroup: /system.slice/tenshi.service
           ├─2800 /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/tenshi -P /var/run/tenshi/tenshi.pid
           ├─2801 /usr/bin/tail -q --follow=name --retry -n 0 /var/log/syslog /var/log/auth.log
           └─2802 tenshi

Mar 11 10:01:34 rodakorset systemd[1]: Starting LSB: tenshi log monitoring and reporting tool...
Mar 11 10:06:35 rodakorset systemd[1]: tenshi.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating.
Mar 11 10:06:35 rodakorset systemd[1]: tenshi.service: Failed with result 'timeout'.
Mar 11 10:06:35 rodakorset systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: tenshi log monitoring and reporting tool.
dpkg: error processing package tenshi (--configure):
 installed tenshi package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu10.13) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tenshi
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)