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package dictionaries-common 1.12.10 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

Bug #1073203 reported by silvagroup on 2012-10-30

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #862610: shared/packages-wordlist: return code: "10" owners/error: "shared/packages-wordlist doesn't exist". Edit Remove

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

Bug Description

Upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: dictionaries-common 1.12.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 30 08:24:29 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: dictionaries-common
Title: package dictionaries-common 1.12.10 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-30 (0 days ago)

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silvagroup (casaba7339-ubuntu) wrote on 2012-10-30:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (227 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (626 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (528 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (56.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (11.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (30.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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silvagroup (casaba7339-ubuntu) wrote on 2012-10-30:

It appaers that package is installed. Not sure why got error.

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era (era) wrote on 2012-11-01:

Quoting the attached DpkgTerminalLog.txt:
> Setting up dictionaries-common (1.12.10) ...
> update-default-wordlist: Question empty but elements installed for class "wordlist"
> dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: return code: "0", value: ""
> Choices: , Manual symlink setting
> shared/packages-wordlist: return code: "10" owners/error: "shared/packages-wordlist doesn't exist"
> Installed elements: american (American English), british (British English)
>
> Please see "/usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common/README.problems", section
> "Debconf database corruption" for recovery info.
>
> update-default-wordlist: Selected wordlist ""
> does not correspond to any installed package in the system
> and no alternative wordlist could be selected.
> dpkg: error processing dictionaries-common (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

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 #862610, 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.