Re: System in broken state after dpkg upgrade

From	Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: System in broken state after dpkg upgrade
Date	2016-09-07 17:30 +0200
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On Wed, 07 Sep 2016, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> I have mixed wheezy/jessie system. When tried to upgrade cmake from
> jessie, apt pulled other packages including dpkg which gave error
> during configure:
[...]
> dpkg (subprocess): cannot set security execution context for maintainer script: Invalid argument
> dpkg: error processing package dpkg (--configure):
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  dpkg

You have selinux enabled, and for whatever reason, setting the
appropriate security context for the maintainer script, likely because
you haven't upgraded refpolicy to properly support dpkg_script_t or
other set up the selinux policy correctly.

Fix that, and you should be able to complete the install.

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System in broken state after dpkg upgrade Marko Randjelovic <markoran@eunet.rs> - 2016-09-07 10:30 +0200
  Re: System in broken state after dpkg upgrade Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-09-07 15:20 +0200
    Re: System in broken state after dpkg upgrade Marko Randjelovic <markoran@eunet.rs> - 2016-09-07 17:10 +0200
    Re: System in broken state after dpkg upgrade Marko Randjelovic <markoran@eunet.rs> - 2016-09-07 17:20 +0200
      Re: System in broken state after dpkg upgrade Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-09-07 18:30 +0200
        Re: System in broken state after dpkg upgrade Marko Randjelovic <markoran@eunet.rs> - 2016-09-07 19:30 +0200
          Re: System in broken state after dpkg upgrade Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2016-09-07 19:50 +0200
            Re: Re: System in broken state after dpkg upgrade Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> - 2016-09-09 12:10 +0200
  Re: System in broken state after dpkg upgrade Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2016-09-07 17:30 +0200

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