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package gforge-plugin-mediawiki 4.7~rc2-7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255

Bug #383944 reported by smclean
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gforge

Was trying to use synaptec to uninstall when error occured. Installed as part of Media Wiki and was in the process of uninstalling mediawiki when the problem arose.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Package: gforge-plugin-mediawiki 4.7~rc2-7
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: gforge
Title: package gforge-plugin-mediawiki 4.7~rc2-7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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smclean (sgmclean) wrote :
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monkeyking (glidecreme) wrote :

I spend several hours trying to fix this.

The problem is related to postgresql and how the the deb package manager of postgresql has changed the default authentification.

Simply open pg_hba.conf, for me located in /etc/postgresql/8.3/main/pg_hba.conf

and change the line

local all all #ident sameuser

into

local all all trust#ident sameuser

This might be a security issue on your system

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monkeyking (glidecreme) wrote :

I also had problems unstalling it.

I had to create a sys link to my apache2

sudo -s apache2 apache

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Michael Moroni (airon90) wrote :

I cannot unistall it even in Lucid and using version 8.4

I tried to do as monkeyking said:
sudo gedit pg_hba.conf, for me located in /etc/postgresql/8.3/main/pg_hba.conf
local all all #ident sameuser → local all all trust#ident sameuser
But there is no "local all all #ident sameuser"

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Paulo Matos (pmatos) wrote :

I would be happy if I could remove the package. However, dpkg keeps trying to configuring it and failing. Same issue as Michael MORONI.

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Paulo Matos (pmatos) wrote :

Is there a way to remove this for good? I am sick of getting an error after every update!!!

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