package keyboard-configuration 1.108ubuntu15.4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Bahman Shamsini]

Setting up keyboard-configuration (1.108ubuntu15.4) ...
/usr/local/bin/setupcon: 806: /usr/local/bin/setupcon: /usr/local/bin/ckbcomp: not found
dpkg: error processing package keyboard-configuration (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-xorg-core:
 xserver-xorg-core depends on keyboard-configuration; however:
  Package keyboard-configuration is not configured yet.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: keyboard-configuration 1.108ubuntu15.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-24.26~16.04.1-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 21 10:51:21 2018
DuplicateSignature:
 package:keyboard-configuration:1.108ubuntu15.4
 Setting up keyboard-configuration (1.108ubuntu15.4) ...
 /usr/local/bin/setupcon: 806: /usr/local/bin/setupcon: /usr/local/bin/ckbcomp: not found
 dpkg: error processing package keyboard-configuration (--configure):
  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-05 (380 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20170215.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.4
 apt 1.2.27
SourcePackage: console-setup
Title: package keyboard-configuration 1.108ubuntu15.4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2018-06-19 (31 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Simon Pithers (simonp-working)]

I just got the same issue:

update && upgrade on Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.4.0-1070-aws x86_64)

Setting up keyboard-configuration (1.108ubuntu15.4) ...
/usr/local/bin/setupcon: 806: /usr/local/bin/setupcon: /usr/local/bin/ckbcomp: not found
dpkg: error processing package keyboard-configuration (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of console-setup-linux:
 console-setup-linux depends on keyboard-configuration (= 1.108ubuntu15.4); however:
  Package keyboard-configuration is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package console-setup-linux (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of console-setup:
 console-setup depends on console-setup-linux; however:
  Package console-setup-linux is not configured yet.
 console-setup depends on keyboard-configuration (= 1.108ubuntu15.4); however:
  Package keyboard-configuration is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package console-setup (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                           Errors were encountered while processing:
 keyboard-configuration
 console-setup-linux
 console-setup
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Simon Pithers (simonp-working)]

if it can help anyone, I had this problem on normal update/upgrade on 16.04.05 LTS
if you notice the error message: /usr/local/bin/ckbcomp: not found
my ckbcomp was in BIN not LOCAL/BIN.
I copied it to BIN and rerun update/upgrade and the upgrade completely successfully. sorted.