[Syslog-ng-maintainers] Bug#833283: Looks like it's happened again

[Nigel Horne]

Setting up syslog-ng-core (3.8.1-5) ...
Job for syslog-ng.service failed because the control process exited with 
error code.
See "systemctl status syslog-ng.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript syslog-ng, action "restart" failed.
● syslog-ng.service - System Logger Daemon
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/syslog-ng.service; enabled; 
vendor preset: enabled)
    Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Wed 
2016-11-16 17:15:37 EST; 12ms ago
      Docs: man:syslog-ng(8)
   Process: 20017 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/syslog-ng -F $SYSLOGNG_OPTS 
(code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Main PID: 20017 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    Status: "Starting up... (Wed Nov 16 17:15:37 2016"

Nov 16 17:15:37 compaq systemd[1]: Failed to start System Logger Daemon.
Nov 16 17:15:37 compaq systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service: Unit entered 
failed state.
Nov 16 17:15:37 compaq systemd[1]: syslog-ng.service: Failed with result 
'e…de'.
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dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-core (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-redis:
  syslog-ng-mod-redis depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
   Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
   Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not 
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-redis (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-python:
  syslog-ng-mod-python depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
   Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
   Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not 
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-python (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up gtk-update-icon-cache (3.22.3-2) ...
Setting up dpkg-dev (1.18.14) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-5) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-smtp:
  syslog-ng-mod-smtp depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
   Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
   Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not 
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-smtp (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-geoip:
  syslog-ng-mod-geoip depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
   Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
   Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not 
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-geoip (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-amqp:
  syslog-ng-mod-amqp depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
   Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
   Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not 
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-amqp (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-sql:
  syslog-ng-mod-sql depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
   Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
   Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not 
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-sql (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-json:
  syslog-ng-mod-json depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
   Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
   Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not 
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-json (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up liblua5.1-0:amd64 (5.1.5-8.1+b2) ...
Setting up libnfs8:amd64 (1.11.0-2) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng:
  syslog-ng depends on syslog-ng-core (>= 3.8.1); however:
   Package syslog-ng-core is not configured yet.
  syslog-ng depends on syslog-ng-mod-sql; however:
   Package syslog-ng-mod-sql is not configured yet.
  syslog-ng depends on syslog-ng-mod-json; however:
   Package syslog-ng-mod-json is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-stomp:
  syslog-ng-mod-stomp depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
   Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
   Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not 
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-stomp (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for fontconfig (2.11.0-6.7) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-mongodb:
  syslog-ng-mod-mongodb depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
   Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
   Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not 
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-mongodb (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of 
syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data:
  syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
   Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
   Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not 
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data 
(--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-graphite:
  syslog-ng-mod-graphite depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
   Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
   Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not 
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-graphite (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of syslog-ng-mod-riemann:
  syslog-ng-mod-riemann depends on syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0; however:
   Package syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not installed.
   Package syslog-ng-core which provides syslog-ng-abi-3.8-0 is not 
configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package syslog-ng-mod-riemann (--configure):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libgtk-3-bin (3.22.3-2) ...
Setting up libnfs-dev:amd64 (1.11.0-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-5) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
  syslog-ng-core
  syslog-ng-mod-redis
  syslog-ng-mod-python
  syslog-ng-mod-smtp
  syslog-ng-mod-geoip
  syslog-ng-mod-amqp
  syslog-ng-mod-sql
  syslog-ng-mod-json
  syslog-ng
  syslog-ng-mod-stomp
  syslog-ng-mod-mongodb
  syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data
  syslog-ng-mod-graphite
  syslog-ng-mod-riemann
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)