package apport 1.17.1-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: invoke-rc.d: initscript apport, action "start" failed.

[hcmeyer]

Binary package hint: apport

running apt-get update after doing apt-get install quickly

Workaround:
Open a terminal and run:
$ sudo stop apport
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: apport 1.17.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 26 08:13:57 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101204)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apport
Title: package apport 1.17.1-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

I reproduce it in Natty with the latest update. The error is:

Setting up apport (1.17.1-0ubuntu3) ...
start: Job is already running: apport
invoke-rc.d: initscript apport, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing apport (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

This is because of the following line in apport.postinst
invoke-rc.d apport start

which fails if apport is already running.

As a workaround you can run the following commands in a terminal:
$ sudo stop apport
$ sudo apt-get update

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Oh, btw this report has been reported by apport but contains no tags, weird.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

That's due to the recent debhelper change (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/62684664/debhelper_8.0.0ubuntu1_8.0.0ubuntu2.diff.gz) which did:

- # start fails if already running
- start #JOB# || :
+ invoke-rc.d #JOB# start || #ERROR_HANDLER#

and similar. Apparenlty the #ERROR_HANDLER# results in "exit $?" instead of ":" as it should be.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Actually, we need an apport task as welll, as we need to rebuild it against a fixed debhelper.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The change in debhelper is deliberate. This is not a bug in debhelper, but a bug in /lib/init/upstart-job which mishandles jobs that are 'start/running' with no pid. Reassigning to upstart and marking a duplicate of 603934.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

oh, marking this a duplicate is non-trivial due to the duplicates. Well, we'll just pretend I did that then. :)

[hcmeyer (hcmeyer)]

workaround is:

sudo stop apport
sudo apt-get upgrade

Carl

[Carlos (tux-infocms)]

thanks.

Carlos Souza

2011/1/26 hcmeyer <email address hidden>

> workaround is:
>
> sudo stop apport
> sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> Carl
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug (707956).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/707971
>
> Title:
> package apport 1.17.1-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: invoke-rc.d:
> initscript apport, action "start" failed.
>
> Status in “apport” package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
> Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
> Status in “apport” source package in Natty:
> Invalid
> Status in “upstart” source package in Natty:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: apport
>
> running apt-get update after doing apt-get install quickly
>
> Workaround:
> Open a terminal and run:
> $ sudo stop apport
> $ sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> ProblemType: Package
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: apport 1.17.1-0ubuntu3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
> Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Jan 26 08:13:57 2011
> ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error
> exit status 1
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101204)
> PackageArchitecture: all
> SourcePackage: apport
> Title: package apport 1.17.1-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade:
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package upstart - 0.6.7-5

---------------
upstart (0.6.7-5) natty; urgency=low

  * debian/upstart-job: properly handle jobs that are in state 'start/running'
    with no PID, by checking only if the goal is 'start'. LP: #603934,
    #707971.
 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:05:43 -0800