package ttf-dejavu-extra 2.25-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 134

[Victor Gavin]

Binary package hint: ttf-dejavu

Installing VLC and got an error about the DejaVu font.

When I tried to reinstall it, Synaptics complained that there was an error in the config file:

dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 13562 package `gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3':
 error in Version string `256:': nothing after colon in version number
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 134
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: ttf-dejavu-extra 2.25-1
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ttf-dejavu
Title: package ttf-dejavu-extra 2.25-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 134
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic x86_64

[Matt Neilson (ichthyoboy)]

Both ttf-dejavu and ttf-dejavu-extra installed fine for me. What happens when you run: sudo apt-get -f install

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!