package slapd 2.4.15-1ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

I made similar observations. My system is Intel 32 bit.

I decided to upgrade from 8.04 to 9.04 . For this I ran first the upgrade to 8.10 and than the upgrade to 9.04. I didn't have a look at the 8.10 system because I was keen on the 9.04 system so I started the upgrade to 9.04 just after the reboot after upgrade to 8.10.

Than I discovered that slapd wasn't installed in my 9.04 althoug it was in my 8.04 where it worked properly.

Than I tried to install slapd with synaptic and the error occured.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Could you provide the output of the following two commands:

 * ls -l /var/backups/

 * ls -l /var/backups/slapd-*/

matthias@hanne:~$ ls -l /var/backups/
insgesamt 5080
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-05-23 18:37 dc=local-2.3.35-1ubuntu0.2.ldapdb
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-20 00:10 dc=local-2.4.11-0ubuntu6.1.ldapdb
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1933257 2009-06-26 20:01 dpkg.status.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 526732 2009-06-25 21:24 dpkg.status.1.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 526733 2009-06-23 15:16 dpkg.status.2.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 525965 2009-06-22 18:59 dpkg.status.3.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 524560 2009-06-20 00:11 dpkg.status.4.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 524513 2009-06-18 08:16 dpkg.status.5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 524504 2009-06-18 07:33 dpkg.status.6.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 1061 2009-06-17 23:57 group.bak
-rw------- 1 root shadow 916 2009-06-17 23:57 gshadow.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4205 2009-06-18 00:05 infodir.bak
-rw------- 1 root root 1797 2009-06-17 23:57 passwd.bak
-rw------- 1 root shadow 1082 2009-06-17 23:57 shadow.bak
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-03-07 22:17 slapd-2.3.35-1ubuntu0.1
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-05-23 18:37 slapd-2.3.35-1ubuntu0.2
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2009-06-22 16:03 slapd-2.4.11-0ubuntu6.1
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-06-15 15:10 slapd-2.4.7-6ubuntu4.1
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-06-25 23:25 slapd-2.4.7-6ubuntu4.2
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-08-01 20:22 slapd-2.4.9-0ubuntu0.8.04
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2009-01-28 19:43 slapd-2.4.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2009-06-17 15:01 slapd-2.4.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-01-04 17:11 unknown-2.3.35-1ubuntu0.1.ldapdb
matthias@hanne:~$ sudo ls -l /var/backups/slapd-*/
[sudo] password for matthias:
/var/backups/slapd-2.3.35-1ubuntu0.1/:
insgesamt 8
-rw------- 1 root root 4575 2008-01-22 20:56 slapd.conf

/var/backups/slapd-2.3.35-1ubuntu0.2/:
insgesamt 36
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25802 2008-05-23 18:02 dc=local.ldif
-rw------- 1 root root 4575 2008-01-22 20:56 slapd.conf

/var/backups/slapd-2.4.11-0ubuntu6.1/:
insgesamt 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4594 2009-06-24 19:24 slapd.conf
drwxr-x--- 3 openldap openldap 4096 2009-06-17 15:01 slapd.d

/var/backups/slapd-2.4.7-6ubuntu4.1/:
insgesamt 8
-rw-r----- 1 root openldap 4575 2008-05-23 18:37 slapd.conf

/var/backups/slapd-2.4.7-6ubuntu4.2/:
insgesamt 8
-rw-r----- 1 root openldap 4575 2008-05-23 18:37 slapd.conf

/var/backups/slapd-2.4.9-0ubuntu0.8.04/:
insgesamt 8
-rw-r----- 1 root openldap 4575 2008-05-23 18:37 slapd.conf

/var/backups/slapd-2.4.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.1/:
insgesamt 8
-rw-r----- 1 root openldap 4575 2008-05-23 18:37 slapd.conf

/var/backups/slapd-2.4.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.2/:
insgesamt 8
-rw-r----- 1 root openldap 4575 2008-05-23 18:37 slapd.conf
matthias@hanne:~$

Relevant error message:

  Backing up /etc/ldap/slapd.d/ in /var/backups/slapd-2.4.11-0ubuntu6.1... done.
  Moving old database directories to /var/backups:
  - directory dc=local... done.
  Loading from /var/backups/slapd-2.4.11-0ubuntu6.1:
  - directory dc=local... failed.

Loading the database from the LDIF dump failed with the following
error while running slapadd:
    /var/backups/slapd-2.4.11-0ubuntu6.1/dc=local.ldif: No such file or directory
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von slapd (--configure):
 Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 slapd
ignored 29 file(s).

It seems that the database dump has been done.

Could you post the complete apt terminal log files of the upgrade? Especially the message related to the preinst script (which should say whether the database has been dumped).

Dear Mathias,

where do I find these files (the complete apt terminal log files of the upgrade)?

Hi Mathias,

They should be available in /var/log/apt.

Regards
chuck

I want you to save download and unpack six term.log.?.gz files so I typed

cd /var/log/apt
sudo zcat $(ls -tr *.gz)>~/term.log

and apended the result.

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