Upgrading to Ubuntu 23.10 (mantic) shows an error in friendly-recovery's post-install script: exit status 127

[Peter]

While running do-release-upgrade on 23.04 (lunar):

2023-11-10 07:12:01,123 INFO cache.commit()
2023-11-10 07:14:39,436 ERROR got an error from dpkg for pkg: 'friendly-recovery': 'installed friendly-recovery package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127'
2023-11-10 07:14:39,437 DEBUG running apport_pkgfailure() friendly-recovery: installed friendly-recovery package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127
2023-11-10 07:17:34,260 ERROR Exception during pm.DoInstall()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/ubuntu-release-upgrader-qbjv8mf4/DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeView.py", line 220, in run
    res = pm.do_install(self.writefd)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
apt_pkg.Error: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
2023-11-10 07:17:34,343 ERROR SystemError from cache.commit(): installArchives() failed
2023-11-10 07:17:34,344 ERROR found exception: 'E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)'