Bug#561856: sivp: sipv 0.4.3-3 postinst fails

tony mancill tmancill at debian.org
Sun Dec 20 17:47:10 UTC 2009


Package: sivp
Version: 0.4.3-3
Severity: important

sivp fails to configure on my system:

$ sudo dpkg --configure sivp
Setting up sivp (0.4.3-3) ...
dpkg: error processing sivp (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sivp


The postinst is failing because the grep fo scilab.star is returning non-zero 
(and set -e is used).

$ sudo sh -x /var/lib/dpkg/info/sivp.postinst configure
+ set -e
+ dpkg -L scilab
+ grep scilab.star
+ SCIDIR=

$ echo $?
1


When I run dpkg -L scilab, I don't see a file named scilab.star.  Is this
postinst code only applicable when upgrading from an older version?

Thank you,
Tony

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sivp depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcv1                        1.0.0-6.3  computer vision library
ii  libcvaux1                     1.0.0-6.3  computer vision extension library
ii  libhighgui1                   1.0.0-6.3  computer vision GUI library
ii  scilab                        5.1.1-12   Scientific software package for nu

sivp recommends no packages.

sivp suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information





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