[Bug 1344009] [NEW] ceilometer-common installation fails, requires manual fixing using dpkg --configure -a

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When trying to upgrade-charm nrpe-external-master, the upgrade-charm
hook failed due to a previously failed install of ceilometer-common.
dpkg complains about a su stanza failing in the postinst script of the
package.

running dpkg --configure -a manually seems to fix the issue.

root at host:/var/lib/dpkg/info# apt-cache policy ceilometer-common
ceilometer-common:
  Installed: 2014.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2014.1.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2014.1.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2014.1.1-0ubuntu1~cloud0 0
        500 http://ubuntu-cloud.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/icehouse/main amd64 Packages
     2014.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

root at host:/var/lib/dpkg/info# dpkg -l '*ceilometer*' |cat
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                Version                                       Architecture Description
+++-===================================-=============================================-============-===============================================================================
ii  ceilometer-agent-compute            2014.1.1-0ubuntu1                             all          ceilometer compute agent
ii  ceilometer-common                   2014.1.1-0ubuntu1                             all          ceilometer common files
ii  python-ceilometer                   2014.1.1-0ubuntu1                             all          ceilometer python libraries
ii  python-ceilometerclient             1.0.8-0ubuntu1                                all          Client library for Openstack ceilome

** Affects: ceilometer (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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ceilometer-common installation fails, requires manual fixing using dpkg --configure -a
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1344009
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