package e2fsprogs 1.41.9-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '<standard output>': No such file or directory

[Mezgani Ali]

Binary package hint: e2fsprogs

I was trying to upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 on 2010-02-11 and my upgrade aborted due to some conflict.
So after running apt-get -f install all seems to be OK.
I reboot my box and at boot i get the crash icon telling me to report the bug.

$ dpkg -l e2fsprogs
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===================-===================-======================================================
ii e2fsprogs 1.41.9-1ubuntu4 ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 11 03:16:53 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ErrorMessage: error writing to '<standard output>': No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: e2fsprogs 1.41.9-1ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
SourcePackage: e2fsprogs
Title: package e2fsprogs 1.41.9-1ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: error writing to '<standard output>': No such file or directory
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686