[Bug 1484740] Re: 14.04 trousers version 0.3.11.2-1 fails to start when TPM device

[Eric Desrochers]

** Summary changed:

- 14.04.2 LTS trousers version 0.3.11.2-1 fails to start
+ 14.04 trousers version 0.3.11.2-1 fails to start when TPM device

** Summary changed:

- 14.04 trousers version 0.3.11.2-1 fails to start when TPM device
+ 14.04 trousers version 0.3.11.2-1 fails to start with TPM device

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Title:
  14.04 trousers version 0.3.11.2-1 fails to start with TPM device

Status in trousers package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Ubuntu Version:
  DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
  DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
  DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
  DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS"
  NAME="Ubuntu"
  VERSION="14.04.2 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
  ID=ubuntu
  ID_LIKE=debian
  PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS"
  VERSION_ID="14.04"
  HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
  SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
  BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"

  
  the standard apt repositories are downloading an old broken version of trousers: 0.3.11.2-1

  during trousers installation, the service fails to start:
  apt-get install trousers
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
    trousers
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 125 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0 B/137 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 412 kB of additional disk space will be used.
  Selecting previously unselected package trousers.
  (Reading database ... 74822 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../trousers_0.3.11.2-1_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking trousers (0.3.11.2-1) ...
  Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu1) ...
  Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
  Setting up trousers (0.3.11.2-1) ...
   * Starting Trusted Computing daemon tcsd                                [fail]
  invoke-rc.d: initscript trousers, action "start" failed.
  dpkg: error processing package trousers (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 137
  Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   trousers
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  can the apt repositories for 14.04.2 LTS be updated to include the
  latest version of trousers 0.3.13-3? this issue does not exist if i
  install the package manually.

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