Postinst fails during upgrade to Edgy

Bug #70172 reported by scott
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
acpid (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Daniel Hahler

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

a unresolved problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
An unresolved dependency in acpid,acpi-support.Leaving acpid unconfigured.

Reinstalled acpid.No help.

Gnome suggests that i send a copy of /var/log/dist-upgrade/,but i cannot access with gedit.
Nor do I find /dist-upgrade in /var/log/ files at all.

Not much help in that dept.

Basically,I had to reinstall xorg after upgrade to edgy from dapper.

Once I got into edgy,it reported dependency problems in terminal as such:
Setting up acpid (1.0.4-5ubuntu4) ...
 * Loading ACPI modules... [ ok ]
 * Starting ACPI services... acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy
invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acpi-support:
 acpi-support depends on acpid (>= 1.0.4-1ubuntu4); however:
  Package acpid is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing acpi-support (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 acpid
 acpi-support
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Sorry I can't give more.If I can get into /var/log/dist-upgrade/ I will get as soon as possible.

I tried debconf & apt-get dist-upgrade,apt-get upgrade,auto-apt acpid.Tried dpkg-reconfigure debconf.

Maybe I'll uninstall acpi-support and let you know what happens.
Regards, Scott

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote :

This seems to be an error in the acpid package. Please stop the acpi service before you upgrade and try again: sudo /etc/init.d/acpid stop

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scott (redhowlingwolves) wrote :
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Tried that.Got this:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
9 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up acpid (1.0.4-5ubuntu4) ...
 * Loading ACPI modules... [ ok ]
 * Starting ACPI services... acpid: can't open /proc/acpi/event: Device or resource busy
invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing acpid (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of acpi-support:
 acpi-support depends on acpid (>= 1.0.4-1ubuntu4); however:
  Package acpid is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing acpi-support (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of powermanagement-interface:
 powermanagement-interface depends on acpi-support (>= 0.17); however:
  Package acpi-support is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing powermanagement-interface (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-power-manager:
 gnome-power-manager depends on powermanagement-interface; however:
  Package powermanagement-interface is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-power-manager (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-session:
 gnome-session depends on gnome-power-manager; however:
  Package gnome-power-manager is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-session (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-core:
 gnome-core depends on gnome-session (>= 2.14.2); however:
  Package gnome-session is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-core (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-desktop-environment:
 gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-core (= 1:2.14.2.1ubuntu1); however:
  Package gnome-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-desktop-environment (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-office:
 gnome-office depends on gnome-core (= 1:2.14.2.1ubuntu1); however:
  Package gnome-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome-office (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome:
 gnome depends on gnome-desktop-environment (= 1:2.14.2.1ubuntu1); however:
  Package gnome-desktop-environment is not configured yet.
 gnome depends on gnome-office (= 1:2.14.2.1ubuntu1); however:
  Package gnome-office is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing gnome (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 acpid
 acpi-support
 powermanagemen...

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Matthew Garrett (mjg59) wrote :

acpid bug, not an acpi-support one

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

I'm marking this as duplicate of bug 63450.

Changed in acpid:
assignee: nobody → blueyed
status: New → Invalid
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