package festival 1.96~beta-10ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:

[Joel Nordell]

Binary package hint: festival

upgrading to lucid beta 1 from karmic

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 24 19:58:33 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: festival 1.96~beta-10ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic
SourcePackage: festival
Title: package festival 1.96~beta-10ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

[Bjarke Freund-Hansen (bjarkefh)]

I can confirm the problem, however with an upgrade to the final release of Lucid from Karmic.

[soleuu (sol-666)]

during an aptitute update after the dist-upgrade I saw :

useradd : impossible de verrouiller /etc/passwd ; veuillez réessayer plus tard.
...
and
..;
useradd : impossible de verrouiller /etc/shadow ; veuillez réessayer plus tard

so il have removed 2 files!
/etc/passwd.lock
/etc/shadow.lock

commands to use:

sudo mv /etc/passwd.lock /etc/passwd.lock.bak
sudo mv /etc/shadow.lock /etc/shadow.lock.bak
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade -y

now packages are configured properly!