package flashplugin-installer 10.0.22.87ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Bug #359639 reported by
Sindhudweep Sarkar
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #344019: update-alternatives: error or eof reading /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/gnome-video-thumbnailer for update_mode ().
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: flashplugin-nonfree
could not autoremove flashplugin-nonfree
ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
Package: flashplugin-
SourcePackage: flashplugin-nonfree
Title: package flashplugin-
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
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Seems to be a recurring problem with update-alternatives in prerm, so I marked this as dupe of dpkg's bug #344019.
Still unclear exactly what caused this bug; perhaps different versions of flashplugin- installer set up alternatives for different variants. At the very least, it shouldn't fail to uninstall the package. Note from the terminal log that this affects the gnash plugin too.
I think removing an alternative should never cause a package removal to fail, only perhaps log it it somewhere, so update-alternatives --remove should never fail. But there remains a small bit of blame for this package for not ignoring failures until that policy is firmly established. And having two nearly-identical copies of nearly the same code smells bad. But I'm not sure how best to reflect that fact in the bugtracker, so feel free to remove the dupe mark.