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apport package

apport 1.20.1-0ubuntu5 fails to install without error

Bug #767995 reported by John S. Gruber
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apport (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: apport

(Reading database ... 256351 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace apport 1.20.1-0ubuntu5 (using .../apport_1.20.1-0ubuntu5_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement apport ...
Preparing to replace apport-gtk 1.20.1-0ubuntu5 (using .../apport-gtk_1.20.1-0ubuntu5_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement apport-gtk ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Setting up apport (1.20.1-0ubuntu5) ...
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript apport, action "start" failed.
Processing triggers for python-central ...
Setting up apport-gtk (1.20.1-0ubuntu5) ...

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John S. Gruber (jsjgruber) wrote :

Still no luck for me. This is from an attempted synaptic install. apt-get install was the same. Didn't try update-manager.

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John S. Gruber (jsjgruber) wrote :

Marked as duplicate.

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John S. Gruber (jsjgruber) wrote :

As I try this again I can see that while I'm getting the messages:
start: Job failed to start
invoke-rc.d: initscript apport, action "start" failed.

I'm not getting the messages:

dpkg: error processing apport (--install):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

and apport-gtk does seem to install.

Unmarked as duplicate. This may now simply be an extraneous error message when apport is not running and a new version is being installed.

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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

get the same issue while updating with synaptic on i386, seen into dialog comments box:

- installing the new config version /etc/default/apport ...
- start: job failed to start
- invoke-rc.d : initscript apport, action "start" failed

and continue with configuring apport-gtk ....

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Matthieu Baerts (matttbe) wrote :

Thank you for this bug report but It seems it's normal, please have a look to the ChangeLog:
    apport (1.20.1-0ubuntu4) natty; urgency=low
       * Ignore return code on startup
=> https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu/natty/apport/ubuntu

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Matthieu Baerts (matttbe) wrote :

Please reopen this bug if there is a real error!

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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