dpkg failure when upgrading to 7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1

[Gavin Hamill]

As part of this morning's dist-upgrade, flashplugin-nonfree was upgraded, but this failed:

Preparing to replace flashplugin-nonfree 7.0.63.3ubuntu3 (using .../flashplugin-nonfree_7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement flashplugin-nonfree ...
Setting up flashplugin-nonfree (7.0.68~ubuntu1~dapper1) ...
Downloading... done.
usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | sNN kNN]
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
                -n: not really
                -f: force
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 flashplugin-nonfree
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The failing section of the postinst is

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# Automatically added by dh_installinit
if [ -x "/etc/init.d/flashplugin-nonfree" ]; then
        update-rc.d flashplugin-nonfree multiuser >/dev/null
        if [ -x "`which invoke-rc.d 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
                invoke-rc.d flashplugin-nonfree start || exit $?
        else
                /etc/init.d/flashplugin-nonfree start || exit $?
        fi
fi
# End automatically added section
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[Maurizio Moriconi (bugman)]

duplicate of bug #61371

[NeilGreenwood (neil-greenwood)]

This is to be the same problem as bug 61349, which specifies how to fix it.

Step-by-step instructions are included at replies 17 and 18 in the forum post at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=261179.

[Juan Carlos Torres (jucato)]

Marking this as a duplicate of bug 61404 (explains what happened)