package iptables-persistent 0.5.3ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

It returns the same error even on fresh precise beta 2 install.
Message:
update-rc.d: error: start|stop arguments not terminated by "."
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

It hasn't been fixed yet. To workaround this issue you can edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/iptables-persistent.postinst and change the update-rc.d line to the following:

update-rc.d iptables-persistent start 37 2 3 4 5 . stop 37 0 1 6 . >/dev/null

Note the extra "." before >/dev/null.

thx Chow Loong, you made my day...

thx Chow Loong :)
I'll put this patch in my personal apt repo for my kvm nodes puppetruns :)

On 19/04/2012 01:39, Ronny Roethof wrote:
> thx Chow Loong :)

(My given name's Loong Jin, by the way. Chow's my surname.)

> I'll put this patch in my personal apt repo for my kvm nodes puppetruns :)
>

Sure, but the fix will get up to Precise soon enough anyway.

--
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

I think this is probably a deficiency in the helper script. Logged Bug 985508.

The branch has been updated now to implement a workaround until dpkg-maintscript-helper gets a fix.

The discussion on Bug 985508 suggests that the pristine check can never apply for this package since /etc/iptables/rules is a 'configuration' file, not a conffile.

Therefore the use of dpkg-mainscript-helper is likely erroneous anyway. It will never be removed directly.

So perhaps we can strip all the complexity out?

This bug was fixed in the package iptables-persistent - 0.5.3ubuntu2

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iptables-persistent (0.5.3ubuntu2) precise; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: add missing '.' (LP: #920055)
  * Stop using 'dpkg-maintscript-helper' for configuration files (LP: #967018)
 -- Neil Wilson <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:57:01 +0100