dependency problems: cp: preserving permissions for `/var/lib/ucf/hashfile.7': Permis

Jebuswankel · 01-13-2011, 01:39 PM

My Debian Squeeze server that I'm trying to make a LAMP server is currently a LAM server. I get these errors when trying to install php5:

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install php5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
php5 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up libapache2-mod-php5 (5.3.3-7) ...
cp: preserving permissions for `/var/lib/ucf/hashfile.7': Permission denied
dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-php5 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php5:
 php5 depends on libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.3.3-7) | libapache2-mod-php5filter (>= 5.3.3-7) | php5-cgi (>= 5.3.3-7); however:
  Package libapache2-mod-php5 is not configured yet.
  Package libapache2-mod-php5filter is not installed.
  Package php5-cgi is not installed.
dpkg: error processing php5 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
configured to not write apport reports
                                      configured to not write apport reports
                                                                            Errors were encountered while processing:
 libapache2-mod-php5
 php5
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I've tried sudo dpkg --configure --pending and apt-get install -f to no avail. Any ideas?

evo2 · 01-14-2011, 10:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jebuswankel

Any ideas?

Check the permissions on /var/lib/ucf/hashfile.7

Evo2.

Jebuswankel · 01-15-2011, 11:32 PM

Here are the permissions for hashfile.7

Code:

/var/lib/ucf$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 registry

What does it matter what the permissions of the file are? I'm running `sudo apt-get install` so doesn't that mean it can deal with any file? I tried running sudo su and then running apt-get but I get the same output.

evo2 · 01-15-2011, 11:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jebuswankel

Here are the permissions for hashfile.7

Code:

/var/lib/ucf$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.3
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.6
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 hashfile.7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 12 02:37 registry

Hmm, looks ok.

Quote:

What does it matter what the permissions of the file are?

Did you ready the error message?

Quote:

I'm running `sudo apt-get install` so doesn't that mean it can deal with any file?

No. The file could still be set to be unreadable or unwritable by root.

Quote:

I tried running sudo su and then running apt-get but I get the same output.

I suggest that you look at the post install script (/var/lib/dpkg/info/libapache2-mod-php5.postinst) and try to understand exactly what is happening.

Evo2.

Jebuswankel · 01-21-2011, 09:16 PM

I browsed the ucf man page but didn't get much out of it, then I found the ucf line in the post install script /var/lib/dpkg/info/libapache2-mod-php5.postinst and added the -v flag to get verbose output. Now here's what I get:

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install php5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
php5 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up libapache2-mod-php5 (5.3.3-7) ...
ucf: The new file is /usr/share/php5/php.ini-production
ucf: The Destination file is /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
ucf: The Source directory is /usr/share/php5
ucf: The State directory is /var/lib/ucf
The hash file exists
egrep [[:space:]]\/etc\/php5\/apache2\/php\.ini$ /var/lib/ucf/hashfile
ucf: The new file is /usr/share/php5/php.ini-production
ucf: The Destination file is /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
ucf: The Source directory is /usr/share/php5
ucf: The State directory is /var/lib/ucf
The hash file exists
dpkg: error processing libapache2-mod-php5 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of php5:
 php5 depends on libapache2-mod-php5 (>= 5.3.3-7) | libapache2-mod-php5filter (>= 5.3.3-7) | php5-cgi (>= 5.3.3-7); however:
  Package libapache2-mod-php5 is not configured yet.
  Package libapache2-mod-php5filter is not installed.
  Package php5-cgi is not installed.
dpkg: error processing php5 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
configured to not write apport reports
                                      configured to not write apport reports
                                                                            Errors were encountered while processing:
 libapache2-mod-php5
 php5
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Then I tried throwing in the -n option so that the ucf line wouldn't do anything and I got the install to succeed. Do you see any potential problems that might arise from having done that? I guess I should be fine since this was a fresh install of Debian. I didn't have php installed before. Here was the output:

Code:

$ sudo apt-get install php5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
php5 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up libapache2-mod-php5 (5.3.3-7) ...
*** ERROR: Need exactly two arguments, got 3

Debian GNU/Linux ucf $Revision: 1.26 $.
           Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Manoj Srivastava.
This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence for copying
conditions.  There is NO warranty.

Usage: ucf  [options] new_file  destination
Options:
     -h,     --help          print this message
     -s foo, --src-dir  foo  Set the src dir (historical md5sums live here)
             --sum-file bar  Force the historical md5sums to be read from
                             this file.  Overrides any setting of --src-dir.
     -d [n], --debug    [n]  Set the Debug level to N
     -n,     --no-action     Dry run. No action is actually taken.
     -v,     --verbose       Make the script verbose
             --three-way     Register this file in the cache, and turn on the
                             diff3 option allowing the merging of maintainer
                             changes into a (potentially modified) local 
                             configuration file. )
             --state-dir bar Set the state directory to bar instead of the
                             default '/var/lib/ucf'. Used mostly for testing.
             --debconf-ok    Indicate that it is ok for uct to use an already
                             running debconf instance for prompting.
             --debconf-template bar
                             Specify an alternate, caller-provided debconf
                             template to use for prompting.
Usage: ucf  -p  destination
     -p,     --purge         Remove any reference to destination from records

By default, the directory the new_file lives in is assumed to be the src-dir,
which is where we look for any historical md5sums.

Reloading web server config: apache2.
Setting up php5 (5.3.3-7) ...
remote@olpc:~$ sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
libapache2-mod-php5 is already the newest version.
libapache2-mod-php5 set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.