package tftpd-hpa 5.2+20150808-1ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: installed tftpd-hpa package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

[despres laurent]

Voici, le retour avec les erreurs.

● tftpd-hpa.service - LSB: HPA's tftp server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa; generated)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2018-12-28 11:16:29 +04; 23ms ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 3720 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa start (code=exited, status=71)

déc. 28 11:16:29 levieux systemd[1]: Starting LSB: HPA's tftp server...
déc. 28 11:16:29 levieux tftpd-hpa[3720]: * Starting HPA's tftpd in.tftpd
déc. 28 11:16:29 levieux systemd[1]: tftpd-hpa.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=71
déc. 28 11:16:29 levieux systemd[1]: tftpd-hpa.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
déc. 28 11:16:29 levieux systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: HPA's tftp server.
dpkg: erreur de traitement du paquet tftpd-hpa (--configure) :
 installed tftpd-hpa package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: tftpd-hpa 5.2+20150808-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-43.46-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-43-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Dec 28 11:16:29 2018
ErrorMessage: installed tftpd-hpa package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-27 (31 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release i386 (20180725)
Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.7, python3-minimal, 3.6.7-1~18.04
PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.15rc1, python-minimal, 2.7.15~rc1-1
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2.1
 apt 1.6.6
SourcePackage: tftp-hpa
Title: package tftpd-hpa 5.2+20150808-1ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: installed tftpd-hpa package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

From your log:

Job for tftpd-hpa.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status tftpd-hpa.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript tftpd-hpa, action "start" failed.
● tftpd-hpa.service - LSB: HPA's tftp server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa; generated)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2018-12-28 11:16:29 +04; 23ms ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 3720 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/tftpd-hpa start (code=exited, status=71)

That doesn't tell much but that the job failed.
As already shown in that prompt you'd need to check why the service failed.
In most cases that is a configuration issue on the system, that once fixed allows proper installs/upgrades again.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

On upgrading a service this service has to be restarted to pick up the fixes.
Rather rarely a real issue occurs that the newer version does e.g. fail with the formerly working configuration.
But most of the time what happens is, that a service was installed, but stays unconfigured or experimented with but left in a broken state.

Now on any update of the related packages that service has to be restarted, but since its config is incomplete/faulty it fails to restart.
Therefore the update of that package has to consider itself incomplete.

Depending on your particular case there are two solutions:
- either remove the offending package if you don't want to continue using it.
- Or if you do want to keep it please fix the configuration so that re-starting the service will work.

Since it seems likely to me that this is a local configuration problem, rather than a bug in Ubuntu, I'm marking this bug as Incomplete.

If indeed this is a local configuration problem, you can find pointers to get help for this sort of problem here: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community

Or if you believe that this is really a bug, then you may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem, explain why you believe this is a bug in Ubuntu rather than a problem specific to your system, and then change the bug status back to New.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for tftp-hpa (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]