package glines 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139

[Guy Allard]

Binary package hint: gnome-games

glines install failure.

Using standard Synaptic install.

IIRC, exit status 1 from an install process.

Sorry, should have got more information.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10

apt-cache policy glines
glines:
  Installed: 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.28.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 29 08:40:29 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: glines 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-games
Title: package glines 1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

gconf crash?
Setting up glines (1:2.28.0-0ubuntu3) ...^M
Traceback (most recent call last):^M
  File "/usr/sbin/gconf-schemas", line 7, in <module>^M
    from optparse import OptionParser^M
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 105, in <module>^M
    class OptionError (OptParseError):^M
TypeError: Error when calling the metaclass bases^M
    type() argument 1 must be string, not (null)^M
Segmentation fault^M
dpkg: error processing glines (--configure):^M
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139^M

reassigning for now, thanks.

[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!