sun-java6 package won't install

[Eric Sergeant]

Download seems to freeze after about 30 percent has been downloaded and the "crash" icon appears. Tried several times but the same thing occurred. Package problem message reads "sun-java6-bin 6-15-1 failed to install or upgrade".

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 1 21:36:40 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
DpkgTerminalLog:

ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 128
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: sun-java6-jre 6-15-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic
SourcePackage: sun-java6
Title: package sun-java6-jre 6-15-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 128
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report. Could you please attach the file /var/log/apt/term.log to this report ?

[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!