Bug#439126: multipath-tools: multipath installation fails if the daemon is not running

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: multipath-tools
Version: 0.4.8-2
Severity: important

During upgradation, if the daemon is not running, apt fails.

(Reading database ... 268192 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace multipath-tools 0.4.7-2 (using
..../multipath-tools_0.4.8-2_i386.deb) ...
Stopping multipath daemoninvoke-rc.d: initscript multipath-tools, action
"stop" failed.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
Stopping multipath daemoninvoke-rc.d: initscript multipath-tools, action
"stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/multipath-tools_0.4.8-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/multipath-tools_0.4.8-2_i386.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Ritesh

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (450, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-debian (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages multipath-tools depends on:
ii  dmsetup                   2:1.02.20-2    The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  initscripts               2.86.ds1-38.1  Scripts for initializing and shutt
ii  kpartx                    0.4.8-2        create device mappings for partiti
ii  libaio1                   0.3.106-6      linux kernel aio access library - 
ii  libc6                     2.6.1-1        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1        2:1.02.20-2    The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20070716-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libreadline5              5.2-3          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  lsb-base                  3.1-24         Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  udev                      0.114-2        /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

multipath-tools recommends no packages.

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