package ca-certificates-java 20110426 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Eliah Kagan]

Binary package hint: ca-certificates-java

This bug occurred when attempting to upgrade from Natty to Oneiric (pre-alpha) using the unofficial procedure of changing "natty" to "oneiric" in /etc/apt/sources.list and running "sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". Running the command "sudo apt-get -f install" immediately afterwards produced the following output:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.38-9-generic linux-headers-2.6.38-8 linux-headers-2.6.38-9
  linux-headers-2.6.38-8-generic
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up ca-certificates-java (20110426) ...
Exception in thread "main" java.security.ProviderException: Could not initialize NSS
 at sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11.<init>(SunPKCS11.java:201)
 at sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11.<init>(SunPKCS11.java:103)
 at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
 at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
 at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
 at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:532)
 at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig$3.run(ProviderConfig.java:262)
 at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig$3.run(ProviderConfig.java:244)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig.doLoadProvider(ProviderConfig.java:244)
 at sun.security.jca.ProviderConfig.getProvider(ProviderConfig.java:224)
 at sun.security.jca.ProviderList.getProvider(ProviderList.java:232)
 at sun.security.jca.ProviderList.getService(ProviderList.java:330)
 at sun.security.jca.GetInstance.getInstance(GetInstance.java:157)
 at java.security.Security.getImpl(Security.java:696)
 at java.security.AlgorithmParameters.getInstance(AlgorithmParameters.java:130)
 at sun.security.x509.AlgorithmId.decodeParams(AlgorithmId.java:121)
 at sun.security.x509.AlgorithmId.<init>(AlgorithmId.java:114)
 at sun.security.x509.AlgorithmId.parse(AlgorithmId.java:381)
 at sun.security.x509.X509Key.parse(X509Key.java:168)
 at sun.security.x509.CertificateX509Key.<init>(CertificateX509Key.java:75)
 at sun.security.x509.X509CertInfo.parse(X509CertInfo.java:705)
 at sun.security.x509.X509CertInfo.<init>(X509CertInfo.java:169)
 at sun.security.x509.X509CertImpl.parse(X509CertImpl.java:1747)
 at sun.security.x509.X509CertImpl.<init>(X509CertImpl.java:196)
 at sun.security.provider.X509Factory.engineGenerateCertificate(X509Factory.java:107)
 at java.security.cert.CertificateFactory.generateCertificate(CertificateFactory.java:322)
 at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore.engineLoad(JavaKeyStore.java:763)
 at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore$JKS.engineLoad(JavaKeyStore.java:55)
 at java.security.KeyStore.load(KeyStore.java:1201)
 at UpdateCertificates.createKeyStore(UpdateCertificates.java:65)
 at UpdateCertificates.main(UpdateCertificates.java:51)
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/lib/libnss3.so
 at sun.security.pkcs11.Secmod.initialize(Secmod.java:186)
 at sun.security.pkcs11.SunPKCS11.<init>(SunPKCS11.java:197)
 ... 31 more
dpkg: error processing ca-certificates-java (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ca-certificates-java
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: ca-certificates-java 20110426
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43-generic 2.6.38.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: vmblock vsock vmci vmxnet vmhgfs
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat May 7 23:46:52 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110416)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ca-certificates-java
Title: package ca-certificates-java 20110426 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)