package icedtea6-plugin 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 139

[Sudarshan]

this happened during regular system update

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 139
Package: icedtea6-plugin 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu7
SourcePackage: openjdk-6
Title: package icedtea6-plugin 6b14-1.4.1-0ubuntu7 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 139
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-13-generic i686

[James Stansell (jamesstansell)]

The log file is showing segmentation faults all over the place. Perhaps related to dpkg? Perhaps faulty RAM?

To me it doesn't look like an openjdk problem.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Reviewing your log files attached to this bug report it seems that a package failed to install due to a segmentation fault in application being used by the package installation process. Unfortunately, this bug report isn't very useful in its current state and a crash report would be much more useful. Could you try recreating this issue by enabling apport to catch the crash report 'sudo service apport start force_start=1' and then trying to install the same package again? This process will create a new bug report so I am marking this one as Invalid. Thanks again for helping out!

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 396310, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.