Re: upgrade preload fails

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Niclas Wahlgren <nw@kth.se> writes:

> What to do about this:
>
> debian-black:/home/nw# apt-get upgrade
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back:
>   amarok ...
> .
> .
> .
> ...xterm
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   preload
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 107 not upgraded.
> 20 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/34.8kB of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
> (Reading database ... 333810 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace preload 0.2-5 (using .../preload_0.2-6_amd64.deb) ...
> Stopping preload: invoke-rc.d: initscript preload, action "stop" failed.
> dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> Stopping preload: invoke-rc.d: initscript preload, action "stop" failed.
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/preload_0.2-6_amd64.deb
> (--unpack):
>  subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Exec
> format error
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/preload_0.2-6_amd64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> debian-black:/home/nw#
>
>
> /N

Have you filed a bug about this?

MfG
        Goswin