[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#736258: acpid fails to upgrade on amd64

[Nate Bargmann]

Package: acpid
Version: 1:2.0.20-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Attempting the update acpid from within aptitude leads to the following
error message:

Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 179304 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../acpid_1%3a2.0.21-1_amd64.deb ...
Job for acpid.service canceled.
invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
Job for acpid.service canceled.
invoke-rc.d: initscript acpid, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/acpid_1%3a2.0.21-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/acpid_1%3a2.0.21-1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:


Please advise if further action from me would be helpful.  Also, I am using
systemd on this machine.

- Nate


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages acpid depends on:
ii  kmod      16-2
ii  libc6     2.17-97
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian12

Versions of packages acpid recommends:
ii  acpi-support-base  0.141-2

acpid suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information