Hello!
The last days I had the following when running upgrades:
Unpacking replacement mozilla-mplayer ...
Preparing to replace quicktime-utils 2:0.9.7-2 (using
.../quicktime-utils_2%3a0.9.7-3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement quicktime-utils ...
Setting up smartmontools (5.37-3) ...
Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon: smartd failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript smartmontools, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing smartmontools (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up libgalago3 (0.5.2-2) ...
[...]
Setting up quicktime-utils (0.9.7-3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
smartmontools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up smartmontools (5.37-3) ...
Starting S.M.A.R.T. daemon: smartd failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript smartmontools, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing smartmontools (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
smartmontools
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I will try to find traces of why this happened, but I have one question
beforehand:
Why don't you use "restart" in postinst or check wether smartmontools is
running and decide based on the result?
I've read this bug and agree there ought to be some reason why this happens.
But if we don't find it, using restart seems like a reasonable action to
me: It works in any case and we lose nothing except a line saying
"Restarting.." instead of "Starting..".
If you decide to go this way you might even consider to try and squeeze
that one into etch. The current situation might mean several users
see a package that is reported to be half-configured by our package system.
Regards
Florian
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