[Bug 1344009] Re: ceilometer-common installation fails, requires manual fixing using dpkg --configure -a

[James Page]

The error:

 su: Cannot make/remove an entry for the specified session

would indicate some sort of authentication/authorization issue in the su
call - does the system that this error came from have any specific pam
configuration that might be impacting things in some way.

I've not been able to reproduce this yet.

** Changed in: ceilometer (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

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Title:
  ceilometer-common installation fails, requires manual fixing using
  dpkg --configure -a

Status in ceilometer package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  When trying to upgrade-charm nrpe-external-master, the upgrade-charm
  hook failed due to a previously failed install of ceilometer-common.
  dpkg complains about a su stanza failing in the postinst script of the
  package.

  running dpkg --configure -a manually seems to fix the issue.

  root at host:/var/lib/dpkg/info# apt-cache policy ceilometer-common
  ceilometer-common:
    Installed: 2014.1.1-0ubuntu1
    Candidate: 2014.1.1-0ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 2014.1.1-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       2014.1.1-0ubuntu1~cloud0 0
          500 http://ubuntu-cloud.archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/icehouse/main amd64 Packages
       2014.1-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

  root at host:/var/lib/dpkg/info# dpkg -l '*ceilometer*' |cat
  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name                                Version                                       Architecture Description
  +++-===================================-=============================================-============-===============================================================================
  ii  ceilometer-agent-compute            2014.1.1-0ubuntu1                             all          ceilometer compute agent
  ii  ceilometer-common                   2014.1.1-0ubuntu1                             all          ceilometer common files
  ii  python-ceilometer                   2014.1.1-0ubuntu1                             all          ceilometer python libraries
  ii  python-ceilometerclient             1.0.8-0ubuntu1                                all          Client library for Openstack ceilome

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