libpaper1:amd64 package post-installation scriptreturned error status 1 during upgrade from Xenial 16.04 LTS to Bionic 18.04 LTS

[Corky Searls]

Bug already reported as Bug #1770878.
My experience and output is the same.

Is there any workaround at this point?

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.29
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-13.14~18.04.1-generic 4.18.17
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Jan 20 11:27:49 2019
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2019-01-20 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Here's the error message from Apttermlog.txt:

20031 Setting up libpaper1:amd64 (1.1.24+nmu5ubuntu1) ...^M
20032 ^M
20033 Creating config file /etc/papersize with new version^M
20034 Can't use string ("2") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/bin/tl-paper line 112.^M
20035 run-parts: /etc/libpaper.d/texlive-base exited with return code 1^M
20036 ^[[1mdpkg:^[[0m error processing package libpaper1:amd64 (--configure):^M
20037 installed libpaper1:amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1^M

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

/usr/bin/tl-paper is part of texlive-base. Moving ...