package blueman 1.23+update1-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[F Da Costa Gomez]

Running within VirtualBox 4.1.8 on a Win7 Pro host

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: blueman 1.23+update1-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-31.46~precise1-generic 3.8.13.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 14 14:01:10 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:blueman:1.23+update1-2ubuntu1:subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.3 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20130820.2)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: blueman
Title: package blueman 1.23+update1-2ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[rainmaker (indian)]

On trying an upgrad this is what I got

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  abiword abiword-plugin-grammar abiword-plugin-mathview accountsservice apparmor aptdaemon bamfdaemon calibre calibre-bin
  dh-apparmor fbreader g++ gcc gcr gdb gfortran gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 gir1.2-unity-5.0 gnome-control-center
  gnome-control-center-data gnome-keyring gnome-session-bin gnome-settings-daemon guile-2.0-libs gvfs gvfs-backends
  gvfs-bin gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-fuse gvfs-libs ibus ibus-gtk ibus-gtk3 ibus-pinyin ibus-pinyin-db-android
  ibus-table indicator-sound iptables iputils-ping libaccountsservice0 libgcr-3-1 libgoa-1.0-0 libgoa-1.0-common
  libgpod-common libgpod4 libhttp-message-perl libjson-glib-1.0-0 libmailtools-perl libnetfilter-conntrack3 libpwquality1
  libsmbclient libunity-protocol-private0 libunity-webapps0 libunity9 libzlcore0.12 libzltext0.12 libzlui-qt4 lintian
  linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic onboard orage pm-utils python-ibus python-keyring python-qt4
  python-sip python3-aptdaemon python3-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets python3-aptdaemon.pkcompat samba-common samba-common-bin
  smbclient upower vlc vlc-nox vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-pulse xubuntu-restricted-addons zeitgeist-core
  zeitgeist-datahub
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 83 not upgraded.
1 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 blueman (1.23+update1-2ubuntu1) ...
reload: Method "Reload" with signature "" on interface "com.ubuntu.Upstart0_6.Instance" doesn't exist

invoke-rc.d: initscript dbus, action "reload" failed.
dpkg: error processing blueman (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 blueman
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mike Mestnik (cheako)]

Running on BareMetal. Try switching to coLinux instead of VirtualBox, in my testing the performance was much closer to BareMetal.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

It prevents the package (or a dependent one) from functioning correctly at all.