Bug#283778: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#283778: nagios-common: Upgrade fails because Nagiosadmin already exists

[Olivier Berger]

Le mer 01/12/2004 =E0 17:36, sean finney a =E9crit :

> i'm upgrading the severity on this one to important, as it directly
> affects the usability of the package.
>=20

I agree.

>=20
> is there any chance we could get you to replicate this problem?
> specifically, if you could put a "set -x" at the top of the file
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/nagios-common.postinst and reconfigure
> the package.  there's a lot of legacy code in the postinst
> script from the previous maintainer's version of the package,
> i wouldn't be surprised if something funky has happened with
> transitioning to the new package.  i'll take a look myself in
> the meantime, but the debug output from a set -x version of the
> postinst would be invaluable.
>=20

Well... it's on a production server where I have had to recreate all the
configuration... so I'm not really enthusiastic to trying removing the
package...

(last time, I had to purge all of it, loosing all my conf files :(

>=20
> > There are errors when reinstalling, but not any which would block the
> > installation process... so I hope I can restore the configuration
> > somehow.
>=20
> could you provide some more information on this as well?
>=20

It may have been problems on my side, not directly related to this bug
(I launched a purge from a directory which had to be removed by purge...
so cwd would no longer be happy :( ... that's not a bug, but my fault
then.)

Same applies anyway.

Sorry.

But I suspect the problem may be reproductible easily since I think it
happend again when I tried to purge-reinstall-bug-purge cycle...

Best luck.

Regards,
--=20
Olivier BERGER <olivier.berger@int-evry.fr>
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