Public bug reported:
I don't think this pertains exclusively to this software, but it just
points out an ungraceful failure... more likely within the package
management.
I was upgrading to Jaunty. It died with this error, and while it
appeared to continue on for a while, it obviously did not run all the
post setup scripts. It left the system in a nearly unusable state; no
network, no desktop.
Somehow, the previous postrm script became a directory, containing ruby
on rails html files. That doesn't run as a script very well. I have
no idea how it happened.
When I removed the directory, the upgrade continued.
When there is an error even reading or executing a post install script,
couldn't there be a more interactive way to ask it to skip the script
and keep going? Leaving an upgrade in a half-upgraded state is the
worst possible outcome.
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: unable to install (supposed) new info file
`/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm': Is a directory
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: readline-common 5.2-4
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: readline5
Title: package readline-common 5.2-4 failed to install/upgrade: unable to
install (supposed) new info file `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm': Is a directory
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-package i386
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package readline-common 5.2-4 failed to install/upgrade: unable to install
(supposed) new info file `/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/postrm': Is a directory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/419327
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