[Bug 1770290] Re: package openssh-server 1:7.6p1-4 failed to install/upgrade: installed openssh-server package post-installation script subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

[ChristianEhrhardt]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.

On upgrading a service this service has to be restarted to pick up the fixes.
Rather rarely a real issue occurs that the newer version does e.g. fail with the formerly working configuration.
But most of the time what happens is, that a service was installed, but stays unconfigured or experimented with but left in a broken state.

Now on any update of the related packages that service has to be restarted, but since its config is incomplete/faulty it fails to restart.
Therefore the update of that package has to consider itself incomplete.

Depending on your particular case there are two solutions:
- either remove the offending package if you don't want to continue using it.
- Or if you do want to keep it please fix the configuration so that re-starting the service will work.

Since it seems likely to me that this is a local configuration problem,
rather than a bug in Ubuntu, I'm marking this bug as Incomplete.

If indeed this is a local configuration problem, you can find pointers
to get help for this sort of problem here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community

Or if you believe that this is really a bug, then you may find it
helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively"
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful
if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem,
explain why you believe this is a bug in Ubuntu rather than a problem
specific to your system, and then change the bug status back to New.

** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  package openssh-server 1:7.6p1-4 failed to install/upgrade: installed
  openssh-server package post-installation script subprocess was killed
  by signal (Broken pipe)

Status in openssh package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  bug

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: openssh-server 1:7.6p1-4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu May 10 05:37:21 2018
  DuplicateSignature:
   package:openssh-server:1:7.6p1-4
   Setting up openssh-server (1:7.6p1-4) ...
   dpkg: error processing package openssh-server (--configure):
    installed openssh-server package post-installation script subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  ErrorMessage: installed openssh-server package post-installation script subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-02-17 (81 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170801)
  Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.5, python3-minimal, 3.6.5-3
  PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.15rc1, python-minimal, 2.7.15~rc1-1
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   dpkg 1.19.0.5ubuntu2
   apt  1.6.1
  SSHDConfig: Error: command ['/usr/sbin/sshd', '-T'] failed with exit code 1: /etc/ssh/sshd_config: No such file or directory
  SourcePackage: openssh
  Title: package openssh-server 1:7.6p1-4 failed to install/upgrade: installed openssh-server package post-installation script subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-08 (1 days ago)

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