Package: nginx-common Version: 1.6.2-5+deb8u1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
On upgrading to the latest nginx-common, all configuration files in /etc/nginx are deleted. The directory structure is left intact, but no files exist in the tree - not even the package originals. Nginx then (understandably) refuses to start. Andrew. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/86.7 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 169364 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../nginx-common_1.6.2-5+deb8u1_all.deb ... Unpacking nginx-common (1.6.2-5+deb8u1) over (1.6.2-5+deb8u1) ... Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u3) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ... Setting up nginx-common (1.6.2-5+deb8u1) ... Setting up nginx-full (1.6.2-5+deb8u1) ... Job for nginx.service failed. See 'systemctl status nginx.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript nginx, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing package nginx-full (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) andrewg@whippet:~$ sudo systemctl status nginx.service ● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2016-02-16 14:48:53 GMT; 31s ago Process: 6282 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Feb 16 14:48:53 whippet nginx[6282]: nginx: [emerg] open() "/etc/nginx/nginx.conf" failed (2: No such file or directory) Feb 16 14:48:53 whippet nginx[6282]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed Feb 16 14:48:53 whippet systemd[1]: nginx.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Feb 16 14:48:53 whippet systemd[1]: Failed to start A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server. Feb 16 14:48:53 whippet systemd[1]: Unit nginx.service entered failed state. andrewg@whippet:~$ ls -alR /etc/nginx/ /etc/nginx/: total 32 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 16 14:48 . drwxr-xr-x 155 root root 12288 Feb 16 14:43 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 10 21:54 conf.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 14:48 sites-available drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 10 21:54 sites-enabled drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 14:48 snippets /etc/nginx/conf.d: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 10 21:54 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 16 14:48 .. /etc/nginx/sites-available: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 14:48 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 16 14:48 .. /etc/nginx/sites-enabled: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 10 21:54 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 16 14:48 .. /etc/nginx/snippets: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 14:48 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Feb 16 14:48 .. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (900, 'stable-updates'), (900, 'stable'), (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages nginx-common depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.22 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 nginx-common recommends no packages. Versions of packages nginx-common suggests: pn fcgiwrap <none> pn nginx-doc <none> ii ssl-cert 1.0.35 -- Configuration Files: /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf' /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params' /etc/nginx/koi-utf [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/nginx/koi-utf' /etc/nginx/koi-win [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/nginx/koi-win' /etc/nginx/mime.types [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/nginx/mime.types' /etc/nginx/nginx.conf [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/nginx/nginx.conf' /etc/nginx/proxy_params [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/nginx/proxy_params' /etc/nginx/scgi_params [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/nginx/scgi_params' /etc/nginx/sites-available/default [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/nginx/sites-available/default' /etc/nginx/snippets/fastcgi-php.conf [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/nginx/snippets/fastcgi-php.conf' /etc/nginx/snippets/snakeoil.conf [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/nginx/snippets/snakeoil.conf' /etc/nginx/uwsgi_params [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/nginx/uwsgi_params' /etc/nginx/win-utf [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/nginx/win-utf' -- no debconf information