Bug#390023: multipath-tools: fail to install

[Yann Dirson]

Package: multipath-tools
Version: 0.4.7-1.1
Severity: serious

Attempting to upgrade on a testing box to the version currently in sid:

Setting up multipath-tools (0.4.7-1.1) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/multipath-tools ...
Starting multipath daemoninvoke-rc.d: initscript multipath-tools, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing multipath-tools (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 multipath-tools
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up multipath-tools (0.4.7-1.1) ...
Starting multipath daemoninvoke-rc.d: initscript multipath-tools, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing multipath-tools (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (90, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.4-smp-gbbde1285
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages multipath-tools depends on:
ii  dmsetup                      2:1.02.08-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  initscripts                  2.86.ds1-20 Scripts for initializing and shutt
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdevmapper1.02             2:1.02.08-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-3       Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5                 5.1-7       GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libsysfs2                    2.0.0-7     interface library to sysfs
ii  udev                         0.100-1     /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

multipath-tools recommends no packages.

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