package zoneminder 1.24.2-2build3 failed to install/upgrade:

[PKirkham]

a msg appears saying that since Zoneminder is running the package won't install and to hit CTRL-C to stop. The question being does it stop the install script (which was an update from 9.10 to 10.4) or just the zoneminder part. So I tried to stop the zoneminder process from system monitor however this provoked the error in the installation (maybe?)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: zoneminder 1.24.2-2build3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-23.75-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 17 20:47:21 2011
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 143
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
SourcePackage: zoneminder
Title: package zoneminder 1.24.2-2build3 failed to install/upgrade:

[PKirkham (pete-kirkham)]

In the update the system tried to do today a similar or identical problem occurred. This time I stopped the Zoneminder process with sudo service zoneminder stop and received the console message telling me it was already stopped. Hitting entry in the installation process still gave a post-installation error.