I have same problem when I try to upgrade from version 4.58.9-2ubuntu1 to 4.58.9-2ubuntu1.2
jms% dpkg -l mailscanner ||/ Name Version Description +++-=============================-============================= ii mailscanner 4.58.9-2ubuntu1 email virus scanner and spam tagger jms% ps ax|grep -i mail|grep -v grep 6045 ? SNs 0:00 MailScanner: master waiting for children, sleeping 6046 ? SN 0:01 MailScanner: waiting for messages 7099 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /etc/fetchmailrc --pidfile /var/run/fetchmail/fetchmail.pid --syslog jms% sudo apt-get -u upgrade [sudo] password for jms: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: mailscanner 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/556kB of archives. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 223206 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace mailscanner 4.58.9-2ubuntu1 (using .../mailscanner_4.58.9-2ubuntu1.2_all.deb) ... invoke-rc.d: initscript mailscanner, action "stop" failed. dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ... No MailScanner found running; none killed. invoke-rc.d: initscript mailscanner, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mailscanner_4.58.9-2ubuntu1.2_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 trying invoke-rc.d Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/mailscanner_4.58.9-2ubuntu1.2_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I have tried to solve this by editing script /var/lib/dpkg/info/mailscanner.prerm but no luck so far... -- package mailscanner 4.58.9-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215932 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
