Bug#758914: [dbus] Refuses to complete installation, blocking other pkgs

Bzzzz lazyvirus at gmx.com
Sat Aug 23 22:39:19 BST 2014


On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 21:54:08 +0100
Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:

> 
> Your system's configuration already had a problem (there was a
> filesystem in /etc/fstab that was marked for mounting during boot,
> but wasn't always actually present), but sysvinit's error handling
> is almost nonexistent, so its response is to carry on anyway.
> 
> In contrast, systemd's response to a potentially serious problem is
> "stop doing things that might do more damage, and let the sysadmin
> either deal with it or configure it to be ignored". You can stop
> doing that by adding noauto, and/or configure failures to be
> ignored with nofail.

Hmm, may be asking what to do (with of course a timeout) would
be a softer option.
 
> > E: cups-daemon: subprocess installed post-installation script
> > returned error exit status 1
> 
> As with the dbus error, this is not the important part: the crucial
> lines of output that indicate *why* the postinst returned 1 will
> be a few lines above that.

I'm gonna investigate this as soon as I'll have time to do so.

Regards,
JY
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