[Bug 652876] Re: package nscd 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 due to initscript failing to start

[Etienne Goyer]

I cannot reproduce this bug.  In my case, when upgrading, the nscd
service is first stopped (see nscd.prerm) before being started again (in
nscd.postinst), so the upgrade works just fine.

Witness:

ubuntu at lucid-server:~$ dpkg -l nscd
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                              Version                           Description
+++-=================================-=================================-==================================================================================
ii  nscd                              2.11.1-0ubuntu7                   Embedded GNU C Library: Name Service Cache Daemon
ubuntu at lucid-server:~$ sudo apt-get install nscd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  nscd
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/212kB of archives.
After this operation, 4,096B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 42122 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace nscd 2.11.1-0ubuntu7 (using .../nscd_2.11.1-0ubuntu7.10_amd64.deb) ...
 * Stopping Name Service Cache Daemon nscd                                                                                                              [ OK ] 
Unpacking replacement nscd ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nscd (2.11.1-0ubuntu7.10) ...
 * Starting Name Service Cache Daemon nscd                                                                                                              [ OK ] 


For those affected, could it be that /etc/init.d/nscd is not executable
for some reason?

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Title:
  package nscd 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess
  installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 due to
  initscript failing to start

Status in “eglibc” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “eglibc” source package in Lucid:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Problem occurred after apt-get install, apt-get remove and again apt-
  get install of the following packages:

  sudo apt-get install libpam-ldap libnss-ldap nss-updatedb libnss-db
  nfs-common nscd ldap-utils

  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
  Release:	10.04

  nscd:
    Installed: 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2
    Candidate: 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2
    Version table:
   *** 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2 0
          500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       2.11.1-0ubuntu7.1 0
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/universe Packages

  Not sure if it is working correctly or not, it gave an error message, so...?
       2.11.1-0ubuntu7 0
          500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: nscd 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.44-server 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-server x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Oct  1 12:22:27 2010
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  InstallationMedia: Custom Live CD - Release amd64
  SourcePackage: eglibc
  Title: package nscd 2.11.1-0ubuntu7.2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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