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msttcorefonts package

package ttf-mscorefonts-installer (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 128

Bug #741973 reported by CapnBill on 2011-03-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #442941: debconf failed to upgrade from 1.5.27ubuntu1 to 1.5.27ubuntu2: exit status 128 - Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: msttcorefonts

had just opened synaptic package manager

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: ttf-mscorefonts-installer (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.36-generic 2.6.38
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 19 12:45:24 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 128
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
SourcePackage: msttcorefonts
Title: package ttf-mscorefonts-installer (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 128
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-19 (5 days ago)

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CapnBill (bandnpetri) wrote on 2011-03-24:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (783 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (465 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (38.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (6.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-05-16:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #722049, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.