[Oisf-users] suricata update error

[Eric Leblond]

Hello,

On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 17:03 +0200, Giannis Tzagarakis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm going to update suricata to V1.2.1
> and I'm getting the following error:
> 
>      Reading package lists... Done
>      Building dependency tree
>      Reading state information... Done
>      suricata is already the newest version.
>      0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 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 snort (2.8.5.2-9.1) ...

If I read the last line, it seems the wrong mailing list ;)

Your snort package is in a bad state and it can not be updated by dpkg.
A good solution would be to remove it ;)

BR,

>       * Stopping Network Intrusion Detection System  
> snort                                                *  - No running 
> snort instance found
>       * Starting Network Intrusion Detection System  
> snort                    [fail]
>      invoke-rc.d: initscript snort, action "start" failed.
>      dpkg: error processing snort (--configure):
>       subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit 
> status 1
>      No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
>                                                                    
> Errors were encoun                    tered while processing:
>       snort
>      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> Do you have any idea about?
> 
> Giannis
> _______________________________________________
> Oisf-users mailing list
> Oisf-users at openinfosecfoundation.org
> http://lists.openinfosecfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/oisf-users

-- 
Eric Leblond 
Blog: http://home.regit.org/
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://lists.openinfosecfoundation.org/pipermail/oisf-users/attachments/20120315/63cb0f1b/attachment.sig>