unable to create ubuntu-noble image due to dictionaries-common config failure

[theofficialgman]

this is running with LC_ALL=C

the following are output in terminal when configuring dictionaries-common

Setting up dictionaries-common (1.29.7) ...
Processing triggers for dictionaries-common (1.29.7) ...
aspell-autobuildhash: processing: en [en-common].
Error: /dev/null:1: The key "/usr/bin/aspell" is unknown.
Undefined subroutine &main::subst called at /usr/sbin/aspell-autobuildhash line 54.
dpkg: error processing package dictionaries-common (--configure):
 installed dictionaries-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 dictionaries-common

this worked without issues when I last built images of ubuntu-noble in late February 2024

[theofficialgman (theofficialgman)]

Adding Julian Andres Klode as a subscriber as seemingly this could only be due to the recent package update from aspell https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/a/aspell/aspell_0.60.8.1-1build1/changelog

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

I'm unsubscribing as I only did a no-change rebuild. I'd generally advise against using LC_ALL=C in any setting however, it's generally a bad idea and you should use LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 instead.

[theofficialgman (theofficialgman)]

Seems like a racecondition of some sort. I tried a few days ago with no issue.

This seems to be a long running bug, not something new since its been reported in other places.
https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2391820.html
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/linuxulator-switching-to-non-root-user-in-the-chroot-to-run-davinci-resolve.92234/