Package: system-tools-backends Version: 2.4.2-1 Severity: normal Setting up system-tools-backends (2.4.2-1) ... Starting System Tools Backends: system-tools-backendsinvoke-rc.d: initscript system-tools-backends, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing system-tools-backends (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
I belive this happened because the daemon was already running when the postinst tried to start it, because dbus was also upgraded in this apt run, and its init script will restart system-tools-backends. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages system-tools-backends depends on: ii adduser 3.106 add and remove users and groups ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.20-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.74-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libnet-dbus-perl 0.33.5-1 Perl extension for the DBus messag system-tools-backends recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- see shy jo