[Bug 1022264] Re: base-files package update fails with error: "date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted"

[Vitaly Lipatov]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1022198 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1022198

I did resolve it with follow commands:
 # cd /tmp
 # ln -s /bin/true date
 # PATH=./:$PATH dpkg --configure base-files 
 # rm date

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Title:
  base-files package update fails with error: "date: cannot set date:
  Operation not permitted"

Status in “base-files” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  # apt-get upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    base-files
  1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  Need to get 0 B/66.8 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
  (Reading database ... 57571 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to replace base-files 6.4ubuntu5 (using .../base-files_6.4ubuntu5.1_amd64.deb) ...
  Unpacking replacement base-files ...
  Processing triggers for install-info ...
  Processing triggers for man-db ...
  Processing triggers for cracklib-runtime ...
  Setting up base-files (6.4ubuntu5.1) ...
  date: cannot set date: Operation not permitted
  Sun Jul  8 12:27:50 UTC 2012
  dpkg: error processing base-files (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: base-files 6.4ubuntu5.1
  Uname: Linux 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5.028stab092.2 x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Jul  8 16:28:02 2012
  Dependencies:
   
  ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: base-files
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-05-29 (40 days ago)

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