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package tzdata 2015d-0ubuntu0.14.04 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 29

Bug #1462273 reported by Erkki Karaharju on 2015-06-05

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #78175: gnome frontend not working without libtext-iconv-perl. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	tzdata (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Unknown error in installation

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: tzdata 2015d-0ubuntu0.14.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-44.73-lowlatency 3.13.11-ckt12
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-44-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 31 16:51:08 2015
DuplicateSignature: package:tzdata:2015d-0ubuntu0.14.04:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 29
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 29
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-10 (875 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: tzdata
Title: package tzdata 2015d-0ubuntu0.14.04 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 29
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-29 (371 days ago)

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Erkki Karaharju (erkki-karaharju) wrote on 2015-06-05:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (10.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (699 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (466 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (112.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (12.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (608 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2015-06-05

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote on 2023-01-24:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Relevant dpkg terminal log:

```
Setting up tzdata (2015d-0ubuntu0.14.04) ...
Can't locate object method "new" via package "Text::Iconv" (perhaps you forgot to load "Text::Iconv"?) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 65.
dpkg: error processing package tzdata (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 29
```

This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #78175, 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.