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dictionaries-common package

package dictionaries-common 1.20.5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

Bug #1476218 reported by Peter on 2015-07-20

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

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

Errors were encountered while processing:
dictionaries-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: dictionaries-common 1.20.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-87.125-generic 3.2.69
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-87-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.9
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 20 12:50:35 2015
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: dictionaries-common
Title: package dictionaries-common 1.20.5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2015-07-20 (0 days ago)

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Revision history for this message

Peter (peter-vanya) wrote on 2015-07-20:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (63.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (709 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (478 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (67.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (114.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.gz Edit (10.1 KiB, application/x-gzip)

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2017-03-24

tags:

added: apport-hook-error

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2017-03-24

tags:

removed: apport-hook-error

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era (era) wrote on 2017-03-25:

The attached DpkgTerminalLog.gz contains the following error message at the end.

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 package dictionaries-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255