Public bug reported: Upgrading on hardy today for firefox-2 did not work (I'm sure I'm not the only one reporting this, but the LaunchPad search did not show up anything relevant... sorry of possibly duplication)
Upgrade fails because postinstall points to wrong location of a restartrequired script: $ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade [sudo] password for egonw: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The following partially installed packages will be configured: firefox-2 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up firefox-2 (2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ... Please restart any running Firefoxes, or you will experience problems. cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/firefox-2/firefox-2-restart-required.update-notifier': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing firefox-2 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Errors were encountered while processing: firefox-2 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) A package failed to install. Trying to recover: Setting up firefox-2 (2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ... Please restart any running Firefoxes, or you will experience problems. cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/firefox-2/firefox-2-restart-required.update-notifier': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing firefox-2 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for libc6 ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Errors were encountered while processing: firefox-2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Building tag database... Done The script is available from a differnt path: $ dpkg -S firefox-2-restart-required.update-notifier firefox-2: /usr/share/firefox/firefox-2-restart-required.update-notifier ** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- firefox-2 postinstall points to wrong location of restart-required.update-notifier https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/207029 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs