package python3-lxml (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Seth Arnold]

I installed 12.04.1 from the OMAP4 pre-installed filesystem image and, after the machine was booted, immediately ran the 'do-release-upgrade -d' command to upgrade to 12.10. There appeared to be some dependency problems between python3-lxml, checkbox, checkbox-qt; these three packages could not be configured nor installed, and ubuntu-desktop was not installable as a result. So I ran apt-get remove python3-lxml checkbox checkbox-qt, allowed it to also uninstall ubuntu-desktop, and then rebooted.

This error happened after the reboot -- I'm not sure why python3-lxml was still installed enough to give this error -- I thought it was completely gone before the reboot.

Thanks

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: python3-lxml (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-214.21-omap4 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-214-omap4 armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
AptOrdering:
 python3-lxml: Configure
 checkbox: Configure
 checkbox-qt: Configure
 ubuntu-desktop: Configure
Architecture: armhf
Date: Sun Nov 18 19:50:48 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: lxml
Title: package python3-lxml (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-11-19 (0 days ago)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From DpkgTerminalLog.txt:

Setting up python3-lxml (2.3.5-1) ...
Sorry: IndentationError: expected an indented block (clean.py, line 707)
dpkg: error processing python3-lxml (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

is this still seen?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for lxml (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]