[Bug 896442] Re: errors after attempted updates

[Steve Langasek]

You appear to be installing updates from oneiric-updates in an
environment where initctl is not able to talk to upstart - possibly
because you're running as a chroot.  Presumably you hand-modified
/sbin/initctl in your chroot to replace it with /bin/true, but you did
not use dpkg-divert to ensure that the file would not be overwritten
again on upgrade of the upstart package.  Since there was an SRU of
upstart to oneiric, this would certainly have restored /sbin/initctl,
causing the problem shown here.

Thus this would not be a bug in upstart, but a misconfigured chroot.
Please take care to use dpkg-divert when diverting /sbin/initctl.

** Changed in: upstart (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  errors after attempted updates

Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
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  (Reading database ... 176231 files and directories currently installed.) 
  Preparing to replace libcups2 1.5.0-8ubuntu3 (using .../libcups2_1.5.0-8ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement libcups2 ... 
  Preparing to replace libcupscgi1 1.5.0-8ubuntu3 (using .../libcupscgi1_1.5.0-8ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement libcupscgi1 ... 
  Preparing to replace libcupsdriver1 1.5.0-8ubuntu3 (using .../libcupsdriver1_1.5.0-8ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement libcupsdriver1 ... 
  Preparing to replace libcupsimage2 1.5.0-8ubuntu3 (using .../libcupsimage2_1.5.0-8ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement libcupsimage2 ... 
  Preparing to replace libcupsmime1 1.5.0-8ubuntu3 (using .../libcupsmime1_1.5.0-8ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement libcupsmime1 ... 
  Preparing to replace libcupsppdc1 1.5.0-8ubuntu3 (using .../libcupsppdc1_1.5.0-8ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement libcupsppdc1 ... 
  Preparing to replace ubuntu-docs 11.10.4 (using .../ubuntu-docs_11.10.5_all.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement ubuntu-docs ... 
  Preparing to replace python-gobject 3.0.0-0ubuntu3 (using .../python-gobject_3.0.0-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement python-gobject ... 
  Preparing to replace python-gobject-cairo 3.0.0-0ubuntu3 (using .../python-gobject-cairo_3.0.0-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement python-gobject-cairo ... 
  Preparing to replace python-problem-report 1.23-0ubuntu3 (using .../python-problem-report_1.23-0ubuntu4_all.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement python-problem-report ... 
  Preparing to replace python-apport 1.23-0ubuntu3 (using .../python-apport_1.23-0ubuntu4_all.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement python-apport ... 
  Preparing to replace apport 1.23-0ubuntu3 (using .../apport_1.23-0ubuntu4_all.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement apport ... 
  Preparing to replace apport-gtk 1.23-0ubuntu3 (using .../apport-gtk_1.23-0ubuntu4_all.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement apport-gtk ... 
  Preparing to replace cups-common 1.5.0-8ubuntu3 (using .../cups-common_1.5.0-8ubuntu4_all.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement cups-common ... 
  Preparing to replace cups-bsd 1.5.0-8ubuntu3 (using .../cups-bsd_1.5.0-8ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement cups-bsd ... 
  Preparing to replace cups-client 1.5.0-8ubuntu3 (using .../cups-client_1.5.0-8ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement cups-client ... 
  Preparing to replace cups-ppdc 1.5.0-8ubuntu3 (using .../cups-ppdc_1.5.0-8ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement cups-ppdc ... 
  Preparing to replace cups 1.5.0-8ubuntu3 (using .../cups_1.5.0-8ubuntu4_i386.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement cups ... 
  Preparing to replace eog 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 (using .../eog_3.2.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement eog ... 
  Preparing to replace python-cupshelpers 1.3.6+20110831-0ubuntu9.2 (using .../python-cupshelpers_1.3.6+20110831-0ubuntu9.3_all.deb) ... 
  Unpacking replacement python-cupshelpers ... 
  Preparing to replace system-config-printer-common 1.3.6+20110831-0ubuntu9.2 (using .../system-config-printer-common_1.3.6+20110831-0ubuntu9.3_all.deb) ... 
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  Preparing to replace system-config-printer-gnome 1.3.6+20110831-0ubuntu9.2 (using .../system-config-printer-gnome_1.3.6+20110831-0ubuntu9.3_all.deb) ... 
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  Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ... 
  Unknown media type in type 'all/all' 
  Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles' 
  Unknown media type in type 'uri/mms' 
  Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmst' 
  Unknown media type in type 'uri/mmsu' 
  Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm' 
  Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt' 
  Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu' 
  Unknown media type in type 'interface/x-winamp-skin' 
  Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... 
  Processing triggers for man-db ... 
  Processing triggers for ureadahead ... 
  ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot 
  Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... 
  Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... 
  Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ... 
  Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index... 
  Processing triggers for ufw ... 
  Processing triggers for doc-base ... 
  Processing 1 changed doc-base file... 
  Registering documents with dwww... 
  Registering documents with scrollkeeper... 
  Processing triggers for menu ... 
  Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0 ... 
  Processing triggers for gconf2 ... 
  Setting up libcups2 (1.5.0-8ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up libcupscgi1 (1.5.0-8ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up libcupsdriver1 (1.5.0-8ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up libcupsimage2 (1.5.0-8ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up libcupsmime1 (1.5.0-8ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up libcupsppdc1 (1.5.0-8ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up ubuntu-docs (11.10.5) ... 
  Setting up python-gobject (3.0.0-0ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up python-gobject-cairo (3.0.0-0ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up python-problem-report (1.23-0ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up python-apport (1.23-0ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up apport (1.23-0ubuntu4) ... 
  start: Job failed to start 
  invoke-rc.d: initscript apport, action "start" failed. 
  Setting up apport-gtk (1.23-0ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up cups-common (1.5.0-8ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up cups-client (1.5.0-8ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up cups-bsd (1.5.0-8ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up cups-ppdc (1.5.0-8ubuntu4) ... 
  Setting up cups (1.5.0-8ubuntu4) ... 
  start: Job failed to start 
  invoke-rc.d: initscript cups, action "start" failed. 
  dpkg: error processing cups (--configure): 
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 
  No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already 
  Setting up eog (3.2.1-0ubuntu1) ... 
  Setting up python-cupshelpers (1.3.6+20110831-0ubuntu9.3) ... 
  Setting up system-config-printer-common (1.3.6+20110831-0ubuntu9.3) ... 
  Setting up system-config-printer-gnome (1.3.6+20110831-0ubuntu9.3) ... 
  Setting up system-config-printer-udev (1.3.6+20110831-0ubuntu9.3) ... 
  Processing triggers for libc-bin ... 
  ldconfig deferred processing now taking place 
  Processing triggers for menu ... 
  Errors were encountered while processing: 
   cups 
  Error in function: 
  Setting up cups (1.5.0-8ubuntu4) ... 
  start: Job failed to start 
  invoke-rc.d: initscript cups, action "start" failed. 
  dpkg: error processing cups (--configure): 
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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