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package tzdata 2011l-0ubuntu0.11.04 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #879736 reported by Craig Bell on 2011-10-22

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

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

an error ocurred:
E: tzdata: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: tzdata 2011l-0ubuntu0.11.04
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 21 20:38:31 2011
DpkgTerminalLog:
Setting up tzdata (2011l-0ubuntu0.11.04) ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": could not open /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: tzdata
Title: package tzdata 2011l-0ubuntu0.11.04 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-10-22 (0 days ago)

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Craig Bell (isolus) wrote on 2011-10-22:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (206 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (565 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (443 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (44.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2012-01-09:

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 442941, 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.