package samba-common failed to install/upgrade : subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 143
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| samba (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
I was using the system update manager to upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04. At the end, it said update manager had failed to install or upgrade and would I like to report it. I said okay.
1) I can't tell you much more than that, as since the system is mostly updated now, lsb_release -rd says:
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
but since I'm running 7.10 and have never booted the 8.04 system with the upgrades in place, I don't think that's correct information.
I can't scroll back and report errors from the update manager window which had the Terminal area open, since it seems to have locked up, and the error windows that popped up over the top of it wiped out the text that was there. All I can say is that there was a string of GTK_CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_destroy: assertion but the rest of the pixels in the pane have been wiped out by panels that popped up.
2) Taking a guess that the package name matches the bug error report subject line I can tell you:
update-manager:
Installed: 1:0.87.30
Candidate: 1:0.87.30
Version table:
*** 1:0.87.30 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
1:0.87.24 0
500 http://
But since that's the package it said it couldn't install, again I don't know if you can trust that information.
3) What I expected to happen was that the update manager window would close and ask me to allow it to reboot.
4) Instead it reported the above error and asked me to report it.
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 3 22:17:46 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: update-manager 1:0.87.30
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: update-manager
Title: package update-manager 1:0.87.30 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Uname: Linux 2.6.22-15-generic i686
| LukeKendall (luke-zeta) wrote | #1 |
| LukeKendall (luke-zeta) wrote | #2 |
| Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote | #3 |
| Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in samba: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| bob (bob-harris-tulchan) wrote | #5 |
| bob (bob-harris-tulchan) wrote | #6 |
| bob (bob-harris-tulchan) wrote | #7 |
| Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote | #8 |
| Thierry Carrez (ttx) wrote | #9 |
| Changed in samba (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
Note also that I reported one other problem - that when samba asked me to confirm whether to keep my own smb.conf file, I chose the option to run a shell, and the update manager seemed to block, and no shell window that I could see was available to do my own diffs (note that a request for a side-by-side diff just resulted in a plain diff), and with the update-manager blocked, I had to find the bash that seemed relevant and kill it. When I did, update-manager came back to life and reported that the samba post install shell script had exited unexpectedly, but strangely, it also reported about 8 other packages failed, from winbind to wine to ubuntu-desktop (see the attached VarLogDistupgra
Oh, and while worried that the above failure meant that the upgrade was broken, I tried running a second one, but it couldn't acquire the lock. I plan to run it again when the dead-looking "Distribution Upgrade" window terminates.
Wish me luck.