Synaptic currupted

[Lee Braiden]

On Friday 04 November 2005 10:04, Ashwani Jain wrote:
> E: webmin-apache: subprocess post-installation script returned error
> exit status 2

This isn't really an official method, but the official method is broken since 
you're getting this, so you could run

/var/lib/dpkg/info/webmin-apache.postinst

as root from a shell, and see what it says.  If it's something simple, fix 
that file.  Otherwise, you could force dpkg (and thereby apt and synaptic 
too) to bypass the script by putting 

exit 0

on the second line of it.  Then, do whatever you were doing in synaptic again.

You're getting this error for a lot of webmin-related stuff, so it looks like 
all of the webmin-*.postinst scripts are including another file, which will 
turn out to be the actual cause.  Look out for that.

-- 
Lee Braiden
http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com