Bug#359335: ssh/openssh-server dependency problems prevent installation

[Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu>]

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 18:08 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:10:53PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > Package: ssh
> > Version: 1:4.2p1-7
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Since this renders the package uninstallable, and may have broken my
> > previously working sshd, this may warrant higher severity.  However, I
> > don't see other reports of this, so it may be some local peculiarity.
> > 
> > On the last dist-upgrade I get this:
> > 
> > Setting up openssh-client (4.2p1-7) ...
> > 
> > Setting up openssh-server (4.2p1-7) ...
> > Restarting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshdinvoke-rc.d: initscript ssh, action "restart" failed.
> > dpkg: error processing openssh-server (--configure):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> What is the result of:
> 
>   /etc/init.d/ssh start; echo $?
> 
> Realize that this isn't the same as invoke-rc.d..
After the changes of my previous message, and having restarted the
server already, I get
# /etc/init.d/ssh start; echo $?
Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd1

Which probably doesn't prove much.  Note that the miscoding in the path
of pid file was specific to restart; start is fine.

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