Bug#911603: evolution-data-server: Postinst script returned error exit status 1 with latest upload

[Felix Zielcke]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 09:53:31 -0400 Boyuan Yang <byang at debian.org>
wrote:
> Package: evolution-data-server
> Severity: serious
> Version: 3.30.2-1
> 
> % LANG=C.UTF-8 sudo apt install -f
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
>   android-libext4-utils android-libselinux android-libsepol
> Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up evolution-data-server (3.30.2-1) ...
> dpkg: error processing package evolution-data-server (--configure):
>  installed evolution-data-server package post-installation script
> subprocess returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  evolution-data-server
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> If you can't reproduce it, please let me know and I will provide with
> more details.

Hello,

I just got this bug too.
The problem is that update-notifier isn't installed.
The postinst doestn't clear the error from the test command.
I changed the line to
[ -x /usr/share/update-notifier/notify-reboot-required ] && /usr/share/update-notifier/notify-reboot-required || true

and it continued without problems.

Regards,
Felix

> --
> Regards,
> Boyuan Yang
> 
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