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dictionaries-common package

package dictionaries-common 1.20.2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

Bug #1211151 reported by Jussi Lind on 2013-08-12

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #873551: dictionaries-common: debconf corruption. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

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

Bug Description

Happened when doing "do-release-upgrade -d" to the current 13.10 from 13.04

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Saucy Salamander (development branch)
Release: 13.10

$ apt-cache policy dictionaries-common
dictionaries-common:
  Installed: 1.20.2
  Candidate: 1.20.2
  Version table:
*** 1.20.2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: dictionaries-common 1.20.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-25.37-generic 3.8.13
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-25-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 12 00:51:10 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:dictionaries-common:1.20.2:ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-19 (296 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: dictionaries-common
Title: package dictionaries-common 1.20.2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-08-11 (0 days ago)

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Jussi Lind (jussi-lind) wrote on 2013-08-12:

Dependencies.txt Edit (614 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstatetargz.gz Edit (671.6 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.gz Edit (4.0 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz Edit (50.2 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeHistorylog.gz Edit (21.4 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.gz Edit (760 bytes, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.gz Edit (16.7 KiB, application/x-gzip)

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2013-08-12

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2013-10-20:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in dictionaries-common (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Marty Lucich (mar3ty) wrote on 2013-11-11:

sudo aptitude reinstall dictionaries-common
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
dictionaries-common
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
hyphen-en-us myspell-en-au mythes-en-au openoffice.org-hyphenation
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
E: Internal Error, No file name for dictionaries-common:amd64