Package: mailman Version: 2.1.5-8sarge5 Severity: normal I have difficulties to install the new update Mailman 2.1.5-8sarge5.
p15169043:~# apt-get install mailman Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: python2.3-korean-codecs python2.2-korean-codecs python-japanese-codecs The following packages will be upgraded: mailman 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 18 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 6607kB of archives. After unpacking 623kB disk space will be freed. Get:1 http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main mailman 2.1.5-8sarge5 [6607kB] Fetched 6607kB in 1s (4299kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 28501 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace mailman 2.1.5-8sarge2 (using .../mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_i386.deb) ... Shutting down Mailman's master qrunner dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 No updates are necessary. Starting Mailman's master qrunner. Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/mailman_2.1.5-8sarge5_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) After i have investigate a litte time in looking for the problem i see that there are 2 shunt files within the /var/lib/mailman/qfiles/shunt directory. p15169043:/var/lib/mailman/qfiles# find . -type f ./shunt/1145465662.2810569+61c49717358a01c964da7ae1b486f6e4604bebd8.pck ./shunt/1145466956.072372+84e55081a4239e44812e02da29eabe0cf8df2364.pck I know that the preinst script looks for such files but it doesn't do anything with them i think. After manually removal of these two files the update goes like a charm. Maybe it results from the empty debconf entry mailman/queue_files_present: then i suggest to ask for before the upgrade !? HTH, tim -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.9 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages mailman depends on: ii apache-ssl [httpd] 1.3.33-6sarge3 versatile, high-performance HTTP s ii apache2-mpm-prefork [ 2.0.54-5sarge1 traditional model for Apache2 ii cron 3.0pl1-86 management of regular background p ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii logrotate 3.7-5 Log rotation utility ii postfix [mail-transpo 2.1.5-9 A high-performance mail transport ii pwgen 2.03-1 Automatic Password generation ii python 2.3.5-2 An interactive high-level object-o ii ucf 1.17 Update Configuration File: preserv -- debconf information: * mailman/queue_files_present: mailman/default_server_language: en mailman/gate_news: false mailman/site_languages: de, en * mailman/used_languages: de en * mailman/create_site_list: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
