Re: Debugging a strange dpkg error message

[Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@cs.hmc.edu>]

Frank Küster wrote:
> Matt Brubeck wrote:
>>> subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>
>> It looks like mkdir is getting called with an empty filename (in
>> your preinst?).
>
> Yes, thank you. I found it out myself meanwhile. I am still puzzled why
> I don't get a message from dpkg that the preinst script failed, like it
> happens with the postinst or postrm.

See the last line that I quoted:

  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1