On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 11:45:06PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Package: proftpd > Version: 1.3.0-9 > Severity: normal > > Hello, > > AFAICS your postinst fails (and thus breaks the dpkg processing) when > an error happened: > > Starting ftp server: proftpd - IPv4 getaddrinfo 'zombie' error: Name or > service not known > - warning: unable to determine IP address of 'zombie' > - error: no valid servers configured > - Fatal: error processing configuration file > '/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf' > failed! > invoke-rc.d: initscript proftpd, action "start" failed. > dpkg: error processing proftpd (--configure): > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 > > That's crap. Not having the server name does not mean much. And no > proftpd instance has been stopped by prerm before, so there is no point > in making a restart critical. >
That's eventually an upstream issue. Proftpd requires a valid hostname and ip, else it fails. If I forwarded that to upstream it would be rejected, plain and clean. Policy requires installation/updates fails when the service cannot be bootstrapped. That's what the postinst does. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
