[Bug 1198439] Re: package python2.7-minimal 2.7.4-2ubuntu3.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Barry Warsaw]

This could be related to the change in LP: #1058884 since the traceback
lines up with the patched code.  The os.rename() - which is just a shim
around rename(2) - is producing an EPERM.  The rename(2) manpage says:

       EPERM or EACCES
              The  directory  containing oldpath has the sticky bit (S_ISVTX)
              set and the process's effective user ID is neither the user  ID
              of  the file to be deleted nor that of the directory containing
              it, and the process is not privileged (Linux: does not have the
              CAP_FOWNER  capability); or newpath is an existing file and the
              directory  containing  it  has  the  sticky  bit  set  and  the
              process's  effective user ID is neither the user ID of the file
              to be replaced nor that of the directory containing it, and the
              process  is not privileged (Linux: does not have the CAP_FOWNER
              capability); or the file system containing  pathname  does  not
              support renaming of the type requested.

Can you check to see if any of the above conditions exist?  I think it
would have to be in /usr/lib/python2.7 somewhere.  Search for a .pyc
file that has some numeric suffix, e.g. foo.pyc.123456

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Title:
  package python2.7-minimal 2.7.4-2ubuntu3.1 failed to install/upgrade:
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
  status 1

Status in “python2.7” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Description:	Ubuntu 13.04
  Release:	13.04

  
  software update/upgrade

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: python2.7-minimal 2.7.4-2ubuntu3.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-26.38-generic 3.8.13.2
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-26-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Jul  6 13:03:11 2013
  DuplicateSignature: package:python2.7-minimal:2.7.4-2ubuntu3.1:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-01 (154 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: python2.7
  Title: package python2.7-minimal 2.7.4-2ubuntu3.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-04 (62 days ago)

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