[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#810141: Bug#810141: libvirt-daemon-system postinst tries to touch files in nonexistent dirs

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 09:42:08AM +1300, Nick Phillips wrote:
> Package: libvirt-daemon-system
> Version: 1.2.9-9+deb8u1
> Severity: normal
> 
> On upgrade from wheezy to jessie, libvirt-daemon-system failed to complete
> installation - postinst was trying to touch /var/log/libvirt/uml/.placeholder
> and /var/log/libvirt/lxc/.placeholder - when neither of those directories
> exist.
> 
> Had to manually create dirs in order for postinst to complete.

The dirs are created by the package itself, e.g.

    dpkg -S /var/log/libvirt/uml

So if that failed, dpkg did not create the dirs (e.g. due to some
--path-exclude pattern).

We'd need more logs to tell. We had lots of successful upgrades from
wheezy to jessie already, can you think of s.th. that could be different
on your system?
Cheers,
 -- Guido