package man-db 2.5.7-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)

[sang69]

was updating from update manager: There were suggestions for xulrunner.. and something else, i think for thunderbird. Then got this...???

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: man-db 2.5.7-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-38.83-generic 2.6.32.52+drm33.21
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-38-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Feb 9 11:02:41 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.5.7-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

From DpkgTerminalLog.txt:

Processing triggers for man-db ...
dpkg: error processing man-db (--unpack):
 subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)

[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 an 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!