Squid installation error on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS

[Leroy Tennison]

Thank you for your reply, I certainly appreciate it.  Your comment about not being able to reproduce the issue caused me to attempt an install on another system (which also worked).  This led to further troubleshooting ( save squid.conf elsewhere, apt-get purge squid followed by apt-get install squid - worked) and the discovery that the problem was caused by a squid.conf configuration error (missing "type" parameter to cache_dir).

Sorry for the bother, I should have thought of more thorough debugging efforts.

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From: Robie Basak
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 4:43 AM
To: Leroy Tennison
Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Squid installation error on Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS

Hi Leroy,

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 08:08:49PM +0000, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> apt-get upgrade (after apt-get update) reports:
>
> Setting up squid (3.5.12-1ubuntu7.10) ...
> stat: cannot stat '7000': No such file or directory
> chown: cannot access '7000': No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing package squid (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> It appears that the postinst script is the one which refers to "configure" but I couldn't discern the issue from examining it.  If you need additional information please contact me.  We upgrade this software monthly and this just started occurring.

Thank you for the report, but please note that using the bug tracker
would be better to find others affected and seek resolution. Mailing
list posts aren't tracked.

I was unable to reproduce this with squid 3.5.12-1ubuntu7.10 - neither
with fresh install nor with upgrade.

Can you see if you can find complete steps to reproduce please, and if
so then file a bug with the details?

Thanks,

Robie
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