Hi,

I cant install nagios-nrpe-server on Ubuntu 12. Below is the log.

# apt-get install nagios-nrpe-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
nagios-nrpe-server is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 37 not upgraded.
1 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 nagios-nrpe-server (2.12-5ubuntu1.2) ...
* Starting nagios-nrpe nagios-nrpe invoke-rc.d: initscript nagios-nrpe-server, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing nagios-nrpe-server (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
nagios-nrpe-server
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Kindly help.

Thanks in advance

You should use a recent version of ubuntu (like 16.04 LTS).

But: dkpg --configure -a

what will happen if I run below command?

dkpg --configure -a