mailman upgrade

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 08:17:10PM -0800, Noah wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> My qrunner is getting hung about every 3-24 hours.  so I am trying
> to solve the problem.  It appears that I have the latest mailman
> version installed but the OS and arch version are wrong.

Huh?  Could you be more specific?  And show us the output of

  apt-cache policy mailman

> apt-get is
> attempting to correct this.  Does anybody know who to get dpkg
> and/or apt-get to solve this problem.  Here is the CLI output from
> apt-get.
> 
> ---- snip ---
> 
> root at enabled:/var/lib/mailman/logs# apt-get upgrade
> yeading package lists... 0%
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   mailman
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 22 not fully installed or removed.

Okay, that's not very good.  You need to run

  sudo dpkg --configure -a

to get those 22 half-installed packages to complete their installation.

(In addition to resolving whatever's happening with mailman -- although
if apt-get succeeds in getting mailman to upgrade, it'll automatically
run that dpkg --configure -a command for you.)

> Need to get 0B/8672kB of archives.
> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Preconfiguring packages ...n]?
> (Reading database ... 47240 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace mailman 1:2.1.9-9ubuntu1.2 (using
> .../mailman_1%3a2.1.9-9ubuntu1.4_amd64.deb) ...
>  * Stopping Mailman master qrunner mailmanctl   [ OK ]
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/mailman_1%3a2.1.9-9ubuntu1.4_amd64.deb
> (--unpack):
>  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

Is that it?  You didn't see a debconf screen warning you about queue
files being present or anything like that?

Marius Gedminas
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