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package dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128

Bug #1001877 reported by dan the person on 2012-05-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #442941: debconf failed to upgrade from 1.5.27ubuntu1 to 1.5.27ubuntu2: exit status 128 - Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	dictionaries-common (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

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ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 20 12:13:26 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: dictionaries-common
Title: package dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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dan the person (dantheperson) wrote on 2012-05-20:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (527 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (473 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (329 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (55.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (50.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DuplicateSignature.txt Edit (898 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2012-05-20

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removed: need-duplicate-check

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era (era) wrote on 2012-06-27:

Quoting DpkgTerminalLog.txt:
> Setting up wbritish (7.1-1) ...
> Processing triggers for dictionaries-common ...
> Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66.
> Use of uninitialized value $reply in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 67.
> Use of uninitialized value $reply in split at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 68.
> Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66.
> Use of uninitialized value $reply in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 67.
> Use of uninitialized value $reply in split at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 68.
> dpkg: error processing dictionaries-common (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128

This looks vaguely like a debconf communications error. Can you finish the installation if you rerun it with "sudo dpkg-reconfigure wbritish" and/or "sudo dpkg-reconfigure dictionaries-common"?

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era (era) wrote on 2012-06-27:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #442941, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.