package apache2.2-common 2.2.8-1 failed to install/upgrade:

Hi there
could you please provide the full error message, hopefully in english, you can accomplish this by preceding the "LC_ALL=C" environment variable to your command, this is without the quotation symbols, I.E.:

LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get -f install

Thanks in advance.

Could you also post the log messages related to the dist-upgrade (found in /var/log/dist-upgrade) ?

~$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
6 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up apache2.2-common (2.2.8-1) ...
cp: not writing through dangling symlink `/var/www/index.html'
dpkg: error processing apache2.2-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache2-mpm-prefork:
 apache2-mpm-prefork depends on apache2.2-common (= 2.2.8-1); however:
  Package apache2.2-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing apache2-mpm-prefork (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apache2:
 apache2 depends on apache2-mpm-worker (>= 2.2.8-1) | apache2-mpm-prefork (>= 2.2.8-1) | apache2-mpm-event (>= 2.2.8-1); however:
  Package apache2-mpm-worker is not installed.
  Package apache2-mpm-prefork is not configured yet.
  Package apache2-mpm-event is not installed.
dpkg: error processing apache2 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libapache2-mod-php5:
 libapache2-mod-php5 depends on apache2-mpm-prefork (>> 2.0.52) | apache2-mpm-itk; however:
  Package apache2-mpm-prefork is not configured yet.
  Package apache2-mpm-itk is not installed.
 libapache2-mod-php5 depends on apache2.2-common; however:
  Package apache2.2-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-php5 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php5:
 php5 depends on libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.2.4-2ubuntu5) | php5-cgi (>= 5.2.4-2ubuntu5); however:
  Package libapache2-mod-php5 is not configured yet.
  Package php5-cgi is not installed.
dpkg: error processing php5 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php5-gd:
 php5-gd depends on phpapi-20060613+lfs; however:
  Package phpapi-20060613+lfs is not installed.
  Package libapache2-mod-php5 which provides phpapi-20060613+lfs is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing php5-gd (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 apache2.2-common
 apache2-mpm-prefork
 apache2
 libapache2-mod-php5
 php5
 php5-gd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The log files

Which version of php5-gd are you using and where did it come from?

Thanks
chuck

This is a bug in apache2.2-common's postinst (doesn't check for dangling symlinks). The fix will be in 2.2.8-4:

http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-apache/trunk/apache2/apache2.2-common.postinst?op=diff&rev=658&sc=1

As per above this is a bug in apache2.2-common's postinst (doesn'c check for dangling symlinks). I have backported the fix from intrepid to hardy.

I have attached the debdiff that includes the fix.

TEST CASE:

1. Install gutsy in a kvm session
2. Creating a dangling symlink for index.html
3. Upgrade to hardy.

If you have any questions please feel free to let me know.

Thanks
chuck

According to comment 7 this should be fixed in intrepid:

   apache2 | 2.2.8-4 | intrepid | source, all

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here

Any testers?

Installed from proposed and no problems to report in my case.

I actually meant a gutsy -> hardy-proposed update of apache.

+1

Created a dangling symlink (/var/www/index.html -> /home/ubuntu/fake, cat: /var/www/index.html: No such file or directory) and tried to upgrade from gutsy to hardy. The upgrade failed with -proposed disabled and succeeded with -proposed enabled. Tested in kvm VM.

Copied to hardy-updates.