Ubuntu
php7.0 package

package php7.0-mbstring 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128

Bug #1681229 reported by Haithm EL-Watany on 2017-04-09

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1679435: GNOME Software fails to install .deb packages that trigger debconf prompts. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	php7.0 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Software updater keep freezing while trying to update PHP 7.0 Apache related libs

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: php7.0-mbstring 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-53.74-generic 4.4.30
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-53-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Apr 9 17:19:03 2017
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-11-08 (151 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.1
apt 1.2.19
SourcePackage: php7.0
Title: package php7.0-mbstring 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Haithm EL-Watany (helwatany) wrote on 2017-04-09:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (13.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (455 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (39.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (18.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (41.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DuplicateSignature.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (27.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2017-04-09

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Nish Aravamudan (nacc) wrote on 2017-04-10:

Hello and thank you for filing this bug report.

For now, please use the command-line (`apt update; apt full-upgrade`) as a workaround. This is an issue with update-manager across many packages but is not easily reproducible. Marking it as a duplicate of the other bug.