package openjdk-6-jdk 6b18-1.8.1-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 139

[skrisman]

I tried sudo apt-get remove openjdk-6-jdk and this is what i get Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libcommons-collections3-java junit4 libecj-java realpath libasm3-java
  libcommons-el-java junit libcommons-compress-java libregexp-java
  libjasper-java libcommons-httpclient-java libservlet2.4-java liblucene2-java
  libparted0 libslf4j-java libdb4.7-java-gcj libcommons-logging-java
  libcommons-codec-java jarwrapper libjetty-java libjline-java sat4j
  libcommons-beanutils-java libdb-je-java fastjar libdb4.7-java
  libcommons-digester-java libhamcrest-java libjtidy-java libjsch-java
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  default-jdk openjdk-6-jdk
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 35.3MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Segmentation fault
(Reading database ... 240585 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing default-jdk ...
Removing openjdk-6-jdk ...
Segmentation fault
dpkg: error processing openjdk-6-jdk (--remove):
 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 139
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openjdk-6-jdk
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: openjdk-6-jdk 6b18-1.8.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AptOrdering:
 default-jdk: Remove
 openjdk-6-jdk: Remove
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 31 14:29:42 2010
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 139
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
SourcePackage: openjdk-6
Title: package openjdk-6-jdk 6b18-1.8.1-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 139

[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!