package freeradius-mysql 2.2.8+dfsg-0.1build2 failed to install/upgrade: 子进程 已安装 post-installation 脚本 返回错误状态 1

Hi,
thanks for reporting the bug and making Ubuntu better.

The logs don't hold much more than "8月 27 09:10:54 hostname systemd[1]: freeradius.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.", but it seems this is due to a configuration issue in your freeradius-mysql - your existing one isn't running properly according to the logs.
While one could say the upgrade path shouldn't fail on not being able to reload the old instance because it is not started - it very likely would still fail for the same reason the old one failed.

I'd ask you to check your logs and config.
If this is an error with the tool failing despite it should please describe your setup and the related changes you made to the config so that one can try to reproduce.

[Expired for freeradius (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

I have this issue now too
I first installed freeradius with sudo apt-get install freeradius
Then i found out this is actually an old version (2.2 instead of latest 3.x)
So I uninstalled freeradius with sudo apt-get remove freeradius and it unistalled version 2.2
I then manually installed version 3.x (my own notes);
#afhankelijkheden voor builden
sudo apt-get install debhelper equivs
#downloaden
git clone https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server.git
cd freeradius-server
git checkout release_3_0_13
#package builden
sudo apt-get install devscripts quilt
fakeroot debian/rules clean
sudo mk-build-deps -ir debian/control
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -uc
#ga naar parent dir van freeradius-server (als het goed is ~)
#afhankelijkheden freeradius3
sudo apt-get install libpython2.7 libtalloc2 libwbclient0 libfreeradius3
sudo dpkg -i libfreeradius3_3.0.13+git_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i freeradius-mysql_3.0.13+git_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i freeradius-utils_3.0.13+git_amd64.deb

That worked out until i wanted to make sure I installed freeradius-mysql_3.0.13+git_amd64.deb
Then it gave me this error

I just wanted to make sure and wanted to remove old version of freeradius and freeradius-mysql and typed; sudo apt-get remove freeradius
It then removed version 3 :o

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  freeradius freeradius-mysql
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 3,069 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 101520 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing freeradius-mysql (3.0.13+git) ...
Removing freeradius (3.0.13+git) ...

I'm not happy with this at all, so I'll guess I have to use the ancient version 2.2 then

Any update / progress on this bug? I tried a new install of freeradius-mysql on a clean Ubuntu 16.04, and got the same failure messages.

root@vpn-server:~# apt install freeradius-mysql
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed
  freeradius-mysql
0 to upgrade, 1 to newly install, 0 to remove and 11 not to upgrade.
Need to get 0 B/14.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 100 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package freeradius-mysql.
(Reading database ... 187320 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../freeradius-mysql_2.2.8+dfsg-0.1build2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking freeradius-mysql (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1build2) ...
Setting up freeradius-mysql (2.2.8+dfsg-0.1build2) ...
freeradius.service is not active, cannot reload.
invoke-rc.d: initscript freeradius, action "force-reload" failed.
dpkg: error processing package freeradius-mysql (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 freeradius-mysql
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Now whenever I do any package updates / management, I continually get the same error messages about the freeradius-mysql package:

root@vpn-server:~# apt-get upgrade
::
:: snipped.
::
Fetched 7,690 kB in 1s (6,000 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 187325 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libqt5core5a_5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libqt5core5a:amd64 (5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5) over (5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libqt5dbus5_5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libqt5dbus5:amd64 (5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5) over (5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libqt5network5_5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libqt5network5:amd64 (5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5) over (5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.2) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libqt5gui5_5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.5_amd64.deb ...
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BTW, freeradius2 appears to be end of life, is there a plan to introduce freeradius3?

@miles-i:
see bug #1522040 and also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeradius/+bug/1522040/comments/2