Comment 2 for bug 1379012

The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A
recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).

Setting up bsdmainutils (9.0.5ubuntu1) ...
update-alternatives: error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/write corrupt: invalid status
dpkg: error processing package bsdmainutils (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of man-db:
 man-db depends on bsdmainutils; however:
  Package bsdmainutils is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package man-db (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-standard:
 ubuntu-standard depends on man-db; however:
  Package man-db is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package ubuntu-standard (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bsdmainutils
 man-db
 ubuntu-standard

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