[Bug 541595] Re: [Master] package failed to install/upgrade: package is already installed and configured

[lima]

Looks like I've added this to a duplicate bug, so here it is again:

I've had this problem today, I was applying a patch to postfix, based on the following:
https://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-with-postfix-courier-mysql-and-squirrelmail-ubuntu-14.04-lts#-apply-the-quota-patch-to-postfix

After that, dpkg complained about "cannot access archive: No such file
or directory". The deb archive was postfix_2.11.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb.

I've run the dpkg through strace, and I found the following:
stat("postfix_2.11.0-1_amd64.deb", 0x7ffcaa79c310) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

So, I've renamed the file postfix_2.11.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb to
postfix_2.11.0-1_amd64.deb, and it successfully installed.

I have no idea what is causing this, but this was a "solution".

The strangest thing is that now even the first archive is installing
correctly. (dpkg -i postfix_2.11.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb).

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Title:
  [Master] package failed to install/upgrade: package is already
  installed and configured

Status in dpkg:
  New
Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: dpkg

  For yet unknown reasons packages fail to install with an error like:

  dpkg: error processing flashplugin-installer (--configure):
   package flashplugin-installer is already installed and configured

  without further error.
  This is a "one time" failure. Another run of the installation doesn't produce any error.

  Users reporting this error are also experiencing bug 545790 and bug
  545738 .

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Mar 19 00:09:06 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  Package: dpkg 1.15.5.6ubuntu3
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
  SourcePackage: dpkg
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686

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