package wu-ftpd 2.6.2-30ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:

[Thomas Novin]

Binary package hint: wu-ftpd

Got this during upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Terminated)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: wu-ftpd 2.6.2-30ubuntu1
SourcePackage: wu-ftpd
Title: package wu-ftpd 2.6.2-30ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report

The error is:
=====
Setting up wu-ftpd (2.6.2-30ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing wu-ftpd (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Terminated)
=====

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Could you please tell us the answers you've provided to the wu-ftp questions during setup?

Thanks.

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

I had a defunct process so I killed the script that was running for wu-ftpd (I gave it 20 minutes).

Hmm, I'm not sure I got any questions about wu-ftpd but when I did the upgrade I chose to do replace on all config files that I was asked about.

[lembery (lembery)]

I encountered this problem too while upgrading from Hardy to Intrepid.

wu-ftpd.postins had become defunct and I had to kill the parent process.

No questions pertaining to wu-ftpd were asked during the upgrade process.

[Ronchon (a5)]

I also had the same problem while migrating from hardy to intrepid.
However I got a question first - maybe 30 minutes before: something like "What do you want to do with wu-ftp config"? (not sure).

After that, the worst: after a 1 hour install, the installer said "wu-ftp problem bla bla... click Next to uninstall the new ubuntu and attempt a recovery" !!
Just for the small wu-ftp - that can be installed later... cancel the whole upgrade and get an unstable system?!?!?!

Fortunately I "killall <mylogin>"ed to be sure to extinct the try-to-uninstall-and-recover processes - successfully!

Then reboot and -almost- no problem. Just my NVidia GeForce card that was not recognized anymore and the display looked like the one that can be seen after a night of beers :) So no display... I touched xorg.conf badly - fortunately - so that Ubuntu at restart asked me if I wanted a default graphics config for my system ; after a yes, it is now OK! Ouf!

[Bruce Edge (bruce-edge)]

wu-ftpd hangs during a normal install, it's not just during upgrades. This is on a fresh 9.04 install:

10035 pts/3 S<s 0:00 -bash LANG=en_US.UTF-8 USER=root LOGNAME=root HOME=/root PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games MAIL=/var/mail/root SHELL=/bin/bash SSH_CLIENT=135.149.75.126 5402
10392 pts/3 R<+ 0:00 \_ ps ef TERM=screen SHELL=/bin/bash XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=8a5d86c8bbeb2413c5f6ab6249bf0c89-1237258311.486142-1564243131 SSH_CLIENT=135.149.75.126 54023 22 SSH_TTY=/dev/pts/3 USER=root LS_COLORS=no=00:f
 2842 pts/0 S<s 0:00 -bash LANG=en_US.UTF-8 USER=root LOGNAME=root HOME=/root PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games MAIL=/var/mail/root SHELL=/bin/bash SSH_CLIENT=135.149.75.126 5405
 3333 pts/0 S<+ 0:00 \_ apt-get -y --force-yes -o DPkg::Options::=--force-confnew install dpm dpm-cfg TERM=screen SHELL=/bin/bash XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=8a5d86c8bbeb2413c5f6ab6249bf0c89-1237257735.567454-1788809403 SSH_CLIEN
 5905 pts/1 S<s+ 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/dpkg --force-confnew --status-fd 29 --configure perl perl-modules binutils debsums libdevkit-gobject0 libudev0 devicekit dialog gawk dpkg-awk make dpkg-dev e2tools ethtool ftplib3 gcc
 9880 pts/1 S<+ 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/wu-ftpd.postinst configure LESSOPEN=| /usr/bin/lesspipe %s USER=root SSH_CLIENT=135.149.75.126 54056 22 MAIL=/var/mail/root
 9887 pts/1 Z<+ 0:00 \_ [wu-ftpd.postins] <defunct>