firefox-2 postinstall points to wrong location of restart-required.update-notifier

Confirming same bug on hardy x86_64.

After executing

$ sudo ln -s /usr/share/firefox /usr/share/firefox-2

the following

$ sudo dpkg --configure --pending

 - completed successfully.

I confirm this problem as well. I uninstalled firefox 3 and installed firefox 2 [because of the need of a certain plugin].

this was an intermediate issue. reinstalling the latest should fix this for you. otherwise reopen.

I just ran into this issue when testing firefox-2 (2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1) in a lvm snapshot volume. The first install went without problems. After purging the package and trying to reinstall the error occured:

$ sudo aptitude purge firefox-2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  firefox-2{p}
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 26.7MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 115382 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing firefox-2 ...
Purging configuration files for firefox-2 ...
dpkg - warning: while removing firefox-2, directory `/etc/firefox/pref' not empty so not removed.
dpkg - warning: while removing firefox-2, directory `/etc/firefox' not empty so not removed.
dpkg - warning: while removing firefox-2, directory `/usr/lib/firefox/components' not empty so not removed.
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done

(hardy-snapshot)root@sandbox:/usr/lib/firefox$ sudo aptitude install firefox-2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  firefox-2
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/9190kB of archives. After unpacking 26.7MB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Selecting previously deselected package firefox-2.
(Reading database ... 114883 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking firefox-2 (from .../firefox-2_2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up firefox-2 (2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
Please restart any running Firefoxes, or you will experience problems.
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/firefox-2/firefox-2-restart-required.update-notifier': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing firefox-2 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 firefox-2
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up firefox-2 (2.0.0.13+1nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
Please restart any running Firefoxes, or you will experience problems.
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/firefox-2/firefox-2-restart-required.update-notifier': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing firefox-2 (--configure):...

Same for me today:

$ sudo apt-get upgrade
[...]
0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.
1 nicht vollständig installiert oder entfernt.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Richte firefox-2 ein (2.0.0.14+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
Please restart any running Firefoxes, or you will experience problems.
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/firefox-2/firefox-2-restart-required.update-notifier': No such file or directory
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von firefox-2 (--configure):
 Unterprozess post-installation script gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurück
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 firefox-2
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1

Regarding Alexander Sack's instructions to reinstall, I found that this worked ONLY IF I closed Firefox first.

With Firefox closed, "sudo reinstall firefox-2" works:

Setting up firefox-2 (2.0.0.14+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
Please restart any running Firefoxes, or you will experience problems.

Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

--------------------

When I previously left Firefox open, it continued to fail:

Setting up firefox-2 (2.0.0.14+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
Please restart any running Firefoxes, or you will experience problems.
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/firefox-2/firefox-2-restart-required.update-notifier': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing firefox-2 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
Errors were encountered while processing:
 firefox-2
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up firefox-2 (2.0.0.14+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1) ...
Please restart any running Firefoxes, or you will experience problems.
cp: cannot stat `/usr/share/firefox-2/firefox-2-restart-required.update-notifier': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing firefox-2 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Sorry, my command should be "sudo aptitude reinstall firefox-2".

fix committed to .hardy updates branch

fix committed to develoment branch for intrepid.

Marking this as 'in progress' since it hasn't been uploaded yet to -proposed, we unfortunately have overloaded semantics for the 'fix committed' status.

Also dropping the milestone; this is appropriate for an SRU but not time-critical since there have not yet been any updates of firefox-2 within 8.04.1 and the 'pgrep firefox-2-bin' will always return false on the first install of the pcakage.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:46:57AM -0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Marking this as 'in progress' since it hasn't been uploaded yet to
> -proposed, we unfortunately have overloaded semantics for the 'fix
> committed' status.
>
> Also dropping the milestone; this is appropriate for an SRU but not
> time-critical since there have not yet been any updates of firefox-2
> within 8.04.1 and the 'pgrep firefox-2-bin' will always return false on
> the first install of the pcakage.
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu Hardy)
> Status: Fix Committed => In Progress
> Target: ubuntu-8.04.1 => None
>

fyi, the 2.0.0.15 upgrade which will bring this fix to hardy is
expected to be end of June. As usual, no guarantees.

 - Alexander

This bug was fixed in the package firefox - 2.0.0.15+1nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2

---------------
firefox (2.0.0.15+1nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.2) hardy-security; urgency=low

  * New security/stability upstream release (v2.0.0.15)
    - see USN-619-1

  [ Alexander Sack <email address hidden> ]
  * fix LP: #207029 - "firefox-2 postinstall points to wrong location of
    restart-required.update-notifier"; we fix the paths in firefox-2.postinst
    to point to the right directory.
    - update debian/firefox-2.postinst
  * fix LP: #210481 - "gutsy->hardy upgrade problem"; we introduce Conflicts:
    and Replaces: on old firefox 2 packages (<< 3)
    - update debian/control

  [ Matti Lindell <email address hidden> ]
  * debian/firefox-2.links: update libsoftokn3.so link (LP: #218594).

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:58:32 +0200

hardy-security package copied to intrepid.