[Bug 463429] Re: [Jaunty, Karmic SRU] openafs-modules-dkms' postinst fails repeatedly when headers missing

[Evan Broder]

** Summary changed:

- [Jaunty, Karmic SRU] openafs-modules-dkms' postinst fails repeatedly when modules missing
+ [Jaunty, Karmic SRU] openafs-modules-dkms' postinst fails repeatedly when headers missing

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: openafs-modules-dkms
  
  IMPACT: If openafs-modules-dkms is installed but the necessary kernel
  headers to build kernel modules are not, openafs-modules-dkms' postinst
- will continually fail to complete. I believe this can sometimes also
- trigger more broadly on any upgrade of the openafs package that doesn't
- change the upstream version number (i.e. all versions of 1.4.9)
+ will continually fail to complete.
  
  DEVELOPMENT: This bug was fixed in Lucid by syncing in 1.4.11+dfsg-5;
  for the Jaunty and Karmic SRU, we simply backport the fix synced in from
  Debian.
  
  PATCH:
  http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35845647/openafs_1.4.9.dfsg1-0%2Bubuntu3.2.debdiff
  for Jaunty;
  http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35845649/openafs_1.4.11%2Bdfsg-1%2Bubuntu0.2.debdiff
  for Karmic
  
  INSTRUCTIONS: Uninstall linux-headers-`uname -r`, then install openafs-
  modules-dkms. Observe that openafs-modules-dkms' postinst fails. Observe
  also that running "dpkg --configure -a" repeatedly does not resolve the
  problem.
  
  REGRESSION: Unlikely. The only changes being made here are to maintainer
  scripts, and it's backporting a patch from Debian. The likelihood of
  bizarre toolchain bugs also seems fairly low, given that openafs has had
  relatively recent SRUs for both Jaunty and Karmic.
  
  ==============================
  original bug report:
  
  continuing problem
  
  ProblemType: Package
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3
  NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
  Package: openafs-modules-dkms 1.4.9.dfsg1-0+ubuntu3
  SourcePackage: openafs
  Title: package openafs-modules-dkms 1.4.9.dfsg1-0+ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-12-netbook i686

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: openafs-modules-dkms
  
  IMPACT: If openafs-modules-dkms is installed but the necessary kernel
  headers to build kernel modules are not, openafs-modules-dkms' postinst
  will continually fail to complete.
  
  DEVELOPMENT: This bug was fixed in Lucid by syncing in 1.4.11+dfsg-5;
  for the Jaunty and Karmic SRU, we simply backport the fix synced in from
  Debian.
  
  PATCH:
  http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35845647/openafs_1.4.9.dfsg1-0%2Bubuntu3.2.debdiff
  for Jaunty;
  http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35845649/openafs_1.4.11%2Bdfsg-1%2Bubuntu0.2.debdiff
  for Karmic
  
  INSTRUCTIONS: Uninstall linux-headers-`uname -r`, then install openafs-
  modules-dkms. Observe that openafs-modules-dkms' postinst fails. Observe
  also that running "dpkg --configure -a" repeatedly does not resolve the
- problem.
+ problem. Observe also that installing linux-headers-`uname -r` and then
+ running "dpkg --configure -a" still doesn't fix the problem.
  
  REGRESSION: Unlikely. The only changes being made here are to maintainer
  scripts, and it's backporting a patch from Debian. The likelihood of
  bizarre toolchain bugs also seems fairly low, given that openafs has had
  relatively recent SRUs for both Jaunty and Karmic.
  
  ==============================
  original bug report:
  
  continuing problem
  
  ProblemType: Package
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3
  NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
  Package: openafs-modules-dkms 1.4.9.dfsg1-0+ubuntu3
  SourcePackage: openafs
  Title: package openafs-modules-dkms 1.4.9.dfsg1-0+ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 3
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-12-netbook i686

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[Jaunty, Karmic SRU] openafs-modules-dkms' postinst fails repeatedly when headers missing
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