[Bug 589056] [NEW] snmpd fails to upgrade

[Martin Hagelin]

Public bug reported:

When upgrading snmpd, I get the following error:

dpkg: error processing snmpd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
Errors were encountered while processing:
 snmpd

I had the same problem with the previous upgrade of snmpd and I was able
to fix it by changing the snmpd.postinst file. I moved the two lines for
confmodule to the beginning of the file, see patch below.

Now it works.

//Martin

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--- snmpd.postinst.org	2010-04-25 21:48:18.000000000 +0200
+++ snmpd.postinst	2010-06-03 09:26:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 set -e
 
+. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
+db_version 2.0
+
 if [ "x$1" = xconfigure ]; then
 	if [ ! `getent group snmp >/dev/null` ]; then
 		 deluser --quiet --system snmp
@@ -15,9 +18,6 @@
 	rm -f /etc/rc0.d/K20snmpd /etc/rc6.d/K20snmpd
 fi
 
-. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
-db_version 2.0
-
 # Automatically added by dh_installinit
 if [ -x "/etc/init.d/snmpd" ]; then
 	update-rc.d snmpd start 20 2 3 4 5 . stop 20 1 . >/dev/null

----------------------------------------



System:
Description:	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release:	10.04

Package:
martin at ella:/var/lib/dpkg/info$ apt-cache policy snmpd
snmpd:
  Installed: 5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.1
  Candidate: 5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.1
  Version table:
 *** 5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     5.4.2.1~dfsg0ubuntu1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages

** Affects: net-snmp (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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snmpd fails to upgrade
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