[Bug 1712817] Re: Error when update from 2.2.8+dfsg-0.1build2 to 2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1

[Andreas Hasenack]

Do you still have your terminal log from before the bits you showed in
the bug report?

Even if you have the service stopped, upgrading the packages would have
restarted it, and the freeradius-ldap postinst would encounter the
service running. Unless that earlier restart failed.

In freeradius.postinst, notice the "|| true" suffix ($action is either start or restart):
          invoke-rc.d freeradius $action || true

Then comes freeradius-ldap:
          invoke-rc.d freeradius force-reload

There the action will indeed fail if freeradius isn't runing.

Here are both scenarios. First, the failure:
oot at xenial-freeradius-1712817:~# systemctl stop freeradius.service 
root at xenial-freeradius-1712817:~# apt install --reinstall freeradius-ldap
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/24.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 28097 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../freeradius-ldap_2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking freeradius-ldap (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1) over (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1) ...
Setting up freeradius-ldap (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1) ...
freeradius.service is not active, cannot reload.
invoke-rc.d: initscript freeradius, action "force-reload" failed.
dpkg: error processing package freeradius-ldap (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 freeradius-ldap
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Now a proper upgrade, which includes freeradius itself:
root at xenial-freeradius-1712817:~# systemctl stop freeradius.service 
root at xenial-freeradius-1712817:~# apt install --reinstall freeradius freeradius-ldap
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/550 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 28097 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../freeradius_2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking freeradius (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1) over (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../freeradius-ldap_2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking freeradius-ldap (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1) over (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu19) ...
Setting up freeradius (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1) ...
Setting up freeradius-ldap (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1) ...
root at xenial-freeradius-1712817:~# 


I suspect the restart done by the freeradius postinst in your case failed and was masked by the "|| true" bit, or that the service started but died right afterwards.

Could you please check that your terminal had nothing else related to a
freeradius restart before what you pasted in your bug report?

And also please attach a copy of /var/log/freeradius/radius.log as it
may have information on the running state of the service, and any errors
that it might have encountered.

Thanks!


** Changed in: freeradius (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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  Error when update from 2.2.8+dfsg-0.1build2 to 2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1

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