[Bug 1907694] Re: package rabbitmq-server 3.8.2-0ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: installed rabbitmq-server package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

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: rabbitmq-server (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  package rabbitmq-server 3.8.2-0ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade:
  installed rabbitmq-server package post-installation script subprocess
  returned error exit status 1

Status in rabbitmq-server package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  dpkg-deb: erreur: --field a besoin d'un fichier .deb comme paramètre

  Taper dpkg-deb --help pour obtenir une aide à propos de la manipulation des fichiers *.deb ;
  Taper dpkg --help pour obtenir une aide sur l'installation et la désinstallation des paquets.
  root at komoyek:/home/komoyek# 
  root at komoyek:/home/komoyek# sudo dpkg --configure -a
  Paramétrage de rabbitmq-server (3.8.2-0ubuntu1.1) ...
  Job for rabbitmq-server.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
  See "systemctl status rabbitmq-server.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
  invoke-rc.d: initscript rabbitmq-server, action "start" failed.
  ● rabbitmq-server.service - RabbitMQ Messaging Server
       Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rabbitmq-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
       Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2020-12-10 16:45:33 GMT; 5ms ago
      Process: 45270 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rabbitmq-server (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
     Main PID: 45270 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  dpkg: erreur de traitement du paquet rabbitmq-server (--configure) :
   installed rabbitmq-server package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
  Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
   rabbitmq-server

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: rabbitmq-server 3.8.2-0ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-56.62-generic 5.4.73
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-56-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.13
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  Date: Thu Dec 10 16:43:12 2020
  ErrorMessage: installed rabbitmq-server package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-11-27 (12 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.8, Python 3.8.5, python3-minimal, 3.8.2-0ubuntu2
  PythonDetails: N/A
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   dpkg 1.19.7ubuntu3
   apt  2.0.2ubuntu0.2
  SourcePackage: rabbitmq-server
  Title: package rabbitmq-server 3.8.2-0ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: installed rabbitmq-server package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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