[Resolvconf-devel] Bug#463463: postinst fails if there is no /dev/shm/resolvconf/*

[Johannes Ranke]

Package: resolvconf
Version: 1.38
Severity: important


I wanted network-manager-dev and network-manager-kde, so something
pulled resolvconf. When it failed to install I removed it, and then:

stiller:/home/ranke# LANG=C apt-get install resolvconf
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  resolvconf
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/50.8kB of archives.
After this operation, 270kB of additional disk space will be used.
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package resolvconf.
(Reading database ... 386489 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking resolvconf (from .../resolvconf_1.38_all.deb) ...
Setting up resolvconf (1.38) ...
resolvconf.postinst: Info: Migrating /dev/shm/resolvconf to
/lib/init/rw/resolvconf
cp: cannot stat `/dev/shm/resolvconf/*': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing resolvconf (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 resolvconf
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


I don't have /dev/shm/resolvconf:


stiller:/home/ranke# ls -l /dev/shm
insgesamt 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 31. Jan 16:53 network


Here some parts of dpkg.log:


stiller:/var/log# cat dpkg.log | grep resolvconf
2008-01-31 20:15:17 install resolvconf 1.37 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:17 status half-installed resolvconf 1.37
2008-01-31 20:15:17 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:17 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:29 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:29 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:29 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:29 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:29 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:29 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:29 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:29 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:29 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:29 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:30 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:30 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:30 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:30 status half-configured resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:15:50 status half-configured resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:19:04 status half-configured resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:19:06 remove resolvconf 1.38 1.38
2008-01-31 20:19:06 status half-configured resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:19:06 status half-installed resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:19:06 status config-files resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:19:06 status config-files resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:21:07 install resolvconf 1.38 1.38
2008-01-31 20:21:07 status half-installed resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:21:07 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38
2008-01-31 20:21:07 status unpacked resolvconf 1.38


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages resolvconf depends on:
ii  coreutils                     6.10-3     The GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.19     Debian configuration management sy
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-24     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

resolvconf recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  resolvconf/bad-pppoeconf-hook:
* resolvconf/downup-interfaces:
* resolvconf/link-tail-to-original: false
  resolvconf/bad-pppconfig-hook:
  resolvconf/linkify-resolvconf: true
  resolvconf/disable-bad-hooks: true
  resolvconf/bad-xisp-hook: