[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#520941: nagios3-common: post-installation script returned error

[Alexander Wirt]

Hi, 

>,----[ sudo dpkg --configure nagios3-common ]
>Setting up nagios3-common (3.0.6-4) ...
>debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
>debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.)
>debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
>debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Readline
>debconf: (This frontend requires a controlling tty.)
>debconf: falling back to frontend: Teletype
> * Reloading web server config apache2
>   ...done.
>Usage: htpasswd [-c] passwordfile username
>The -c flag creates a new file.
>dpkg: error processing nagios3-common (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> nagios3-common
>`----
>
nagios3 uses htpasswd with the -b parameter, but it seems that your htpasswd 
does not support -b. What htpasswd do you have and installed? (from which package, which version?). 

Alex