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package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #774878 reported by Jason Gilliland on 2011-05-01

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #349469: debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	man-db (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: man-db

I was trying to install texlive-latex-extras. But the first time it said that I did not have enough space in /var/cache/..., which was probably because I mounted /var on a somewhat small partition. I then decided to mount /var/cache on another partition (bigger) temporarily, not sure whether this might cause more problems that it would be worth. The package then install successfully up until the whole man-db thing, but then I unmounted that other partition from /var/cache, and redid 'sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extras' and this time it worked. I conject that the problem was caused by the fact that I remounted /var/cache on an empty partition, rather than where it might otherwise have been, but I am not honestly knowledgeable enough to confirm or refute that hypothesis.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: man-db 2.5.9-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun May 1 09:18:52 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427)
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Jason Gilliland (jdagilliland) wrote on 2011-05-01:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (303 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (778 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (755 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (62.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (1020 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-06-07:

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 #746912, 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.
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