[Bug 1502977] [NEW] Fails to complete installation: won't start due to config block

[Chris West]

Public bug reported:

The package attempts to start itself as part of the post-install.
However, the default config, shipped with the application, prevents it
from starting.  This makes apt Angry:

Setting up openhpid (2.14.1-1.3ubuntu2) ...
Job for openhpid.service failed. See "systemctl status openhpid.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript openhpid, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package openhpid (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openhpi:
 openhpi depends on openhpid; however:
  Package openhpid is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package openhpi (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu4) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates it's a follow-up error from a previous failure.
Processing triggers for systemd (219-7ubuntu6) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openhpid
 openhpi
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


The error is:
ERROR: (init.c, 76, OpenHPI is not configured.  See openhpi.conf file.)

Caused by:

% head -n 10 /etc/openhpi/openhpi.conf
### OpenHPI configuration example file ###

#######
## OpenHPI will not be useful unless it is configured for your system.  Once
## you have modified this file, remove or comment the following line to allow
## the OpenHPI daemon to run.  This line causes the daemon to exit immediately.
OPENHPI_UNCONFIGURED = "YES"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
Package: openhpi 2.14.1-1.3ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-30.33-generic 3.19.8-ckt6
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct  5 17:26:12 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-01 (430 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: openhpi
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2014-09-11 (389 days ago)

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


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug vivid

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