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

[Joe Pfeiffer]

Package: acpid
Version: 1:2.0.21-1
Followup-For: Bug #736258

I am seeing exactly the problem described here, trying to upgrade from
1:2.0.21-1 to 1:2.0.22-2

babs:517$ dpkg -l acpid
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  acpid          1:2.0.21-1   amd64        Advanced Configuration and Power 
babs:518$ sudo dpkg --install /var/cache/apt/archives/acpid_1%3a2.0.22-2_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 379072 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../acpid_1%3a2.0.22-2_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%3a2.0.22-2_amd64.deb (--install):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/acpid_1%3a2.0.22-2_amd64.deb

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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 acpid depends on:
ii  kmod      16-2
ii  libc6     2.19-4
ii  lsb-base  4.1+Debian13

Versions of packages acpid recommends:
ii  acpi-support-base  0.141-3

acpid suggests no packages.

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