package apport 1.21.3-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 101

Bug #828150 reported by Sheldon Taylor
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Bug Description

Bug occurred immediately after installing upgrades via terminal.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: apport 1.21.3-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 17 11:09:16 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 101
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha i386 (20110803.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: apport
Title: package apport 1.21.3-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 101
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Sheldon Taylor (sheldont22) wrote :
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Sheldon Taylor (sheldont22) wrote :

Just attempted another sudo apt-get upgrade and this is what came up:

...

Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  gnome-keyring gnome-media gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad ibus ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3
  ibus-pinyin ibus-pinyin-db-android libgcr-3-1 python-ibus software-center
  ubuntu-desktop update-manager update-manager-core usb-creator-common
  usb-creator-gtk
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Setting up apport (1.21.3-0ubuntu3) ...
SyntaxError: ("'continue' not properly in loop", ('/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_ubiquity.py', 30, None, 'continue\n'))

dpkg: error processing apport (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 101
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of apport-gtk:
 apport-gtk depends on apport (>= 0.41); however:
  Package apport is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing apport-gtk (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 apport
 apport-gtk
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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