package libavcodec52 3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 (possible filesystem corruption)

[alpha305]

I was trying to install ubuntu restricted extras when this occurred

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: libavcodec52 3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6
SourcePackage: ffmpeg-debian
Title: package libavcodec52 3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[Reinhard Tartler (siretart)]

From your dpkg.log:

ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

/sbin/ldconfig.real: File /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.52.20.0 is empty, not checked.

/sbin/ldconfig.real: File /usr/lib/libavcodec.so.52 is empty, not checked.

/sbin/ldconfig.real: File /usr/lib/libpostproc.so.51 is empty, not checked.

/sbin/ldconfig.real: File /usr/lib/libswscale.so.0.7.1 is empty, not checked.

/sbin/ldconfig.real: File /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49 is empty, not checked.

/sbin/ldconfig.real: File /usr/lib/libavformat.so.52 is empty, not checked.

/sbin/ldconfig.real: File /usr/lib/libpostproc.so.51.2.0 is empty, not checked.

/sbin/ldconfig.real: File /usr/lib/libavformat.so.52.31.0 is empty, not checked.

/sbin/ldconfig.real: File /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49.15.0 is empty, not checked.

/sbin/ldconfig.real: File /usr/lib/libswscale.so.0 is empty, not checked.

Log ended: 2009-05-06 18:22:33

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dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-removal script: Exec format error

dpkg: error processing libavcodec52 (--remove):

 subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2

this looks to me like filesystem corruption. Is there similar trouble on your system? Is there something else that makes you believe there is a problem in the ffmpeg-debian package?

[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!