package mailman (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

[joseph hawkins]

ackage mailman (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: mailman (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-63.103-generic 3.13.11-ckt25
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-63-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.13
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Sep 3 22:23:21 2015
DuplicateSignature: package:mailman:(not installed):subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-09-03 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: LXLE 14.04 - Release i386
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.4
 apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.10
SourcePackage: mailman
Title: package mailman (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Robie Basak (racb)]

From log:

Preparing to unpack .../mailman_1%3a2.1.16-2ubuntu0.1_i386.deb ...
sh: printf: I/O error
sh: printf: I/O error
sh: printf: I/O error
sh: printf: I/O error
sh: printf: I/O error
sh: printf: I/O error
sh: printf: I/O error
sh: printf: I/O error
sh: printf: I/O error
sh: printf: I/O error
sh: printf: I/O error
sh: printf: I/O error
sh: printf: I/O error
sh: printf: I/O error
sh: printf: I/O error
...

[Robie Basak (racb)]

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

This looks like local corruption or misconfiguration, rather than a bug in Ubuntu. You can find pointers to get help for this sort of problem here: http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community

If you believe that this is really a bug, then you may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem, explain why you believe this is a bug rather than a problem specific to your system, and then change the bug status back to New.

Without steps to reproduce the problem, there is little that can be done on this bug. I'll mark this bug as Incomplete for now, pending someone else confirming that it is a bug or unless someone can provide steps to reproduce.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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