package uw-imapd 8:2007b~dfsg-1.1build1 failed to install/upgrade: imapd.pem already installed

Bug #485274 reported by AartCK
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Bug Description

the upgrade 9.04 -> 9.10 hang with the message imapd.pem already installed. I then tried to move imapd.pem to imapd.pem.bu but the upgrade did not continu. I moved imapd.pem back and stopped the installation of uw.imapd with Ctrl-C. After that the upgrade continued.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 19 12:16:34 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: uw-imapd 8:2007b~dfsg-1.1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-16.57-generic
SourcePackage: uw-imap
Title: package uw-imapd 8:2007b~dfsg-1.1build1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-generic i686

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AartCK (aart-koelewijn) wrote :
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David Kaiser (dkaiser) wrote :

This happened during an upgrade from karmic to lucid. I looked at the process list and noticed that the lucid installer had forked out to call debconf, like this:

30802 pts/1 S+ 0:00 \_ /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/uw-imapd.postinst configure 8:2007b~dfsg-1.1build1
30811 pts/1 Z+ 0:00 \_ [uw-imapd.postin] <defunct>

so after about 5 minutes of waiting, I did some straceing and noticed that debconf was just reading over and over against a resource that was not available, (guessing it was trying to talk to a socket from the uw-imapd.postin which was defunct)

assuming that there was no end to the read loop, I terminated the debconf uw-imapd.postinst process with "kill -9 30802" and the lucid installer continued on but gave me the warning about uw-imapd not being installed correctly. I can re-install and fix it easily enough.

tags: added: dist-upgrade
Changed in uw-imap (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
status: Incomplete → New
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