[Pkg-varnish-devel] Bug#619349: Starting HTTP accelerator: varnishd failed! dpkg: error processing varnish (--configure)

[Allan Wind]

Package: varnish
Version: 2.1.5-2
Severity: important


Starting HTTP accelerator: varnishd failed!
invoke-rc.d: initscript varnish, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing varnish (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
configured to not write apport reports

However I was able to stop and start varnish just fine via 
/etc/init.d/varnish {stop,start}

I ended up commenting out everything in configure) section of 
varnish.postinst, stopping varnish then running dpkg --configure.  
Although I am certain this actually reproduce the issue.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33.2 (SMP w/8 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 varnish depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.112+nmu2     add and remove users and groups
ii  gcc                       4:4.5.2-2      The GNU C compiler
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-13      Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]      2.11.2-13      Embedded GNU C Library: Developmen
ii  libncurses5               5.8+20110307-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libvarnish1               2.1.5-2        shared libraries for Varnish

varnish recommends no packages.

varnish suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/varnish changed:
START=yes
NFILES=131072
MEMLOCK=82000
INSTANCE=$(uname -n)
DAEMON_OPTS="-a :80 \
             -T localhost:6082 \
             -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl \
             -S /etc/varnish/secret \
             -s file,/var/lib/varnish/$INSTANCE/varnish_storage.bin,1G"

/etc/default/varnishlog changed:
VARNISHLOG_ENABLED=1


-- no debconf information