package checkbox-gtk 0.16.7 failed to install/upgrade

[eunix]

Upgrading Ubuntu from 12.x->13.x->14.x in stages from the automatic tool. This error occured during the last phase to 14.x

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: checkbox-gtk 0.16.7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-29.53-generic 3.13.11.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 20 09:15:03 2014
DuplicateSignature: package:checkbox-gtk:0.16.7:
ErrorMessage:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-11-26 (936 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: checkbox
Title: package checkbox-gtk 0.16.7 failed to install/upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-06-20 (0 days ago)

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

Setting up checkbox (0.17.6-0ubuntu6) ...
Setting up checkbox-gtk (0.16.7) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/checkbox-gtk.postinst: 5: .: Can't open /usr/share/checkbox/install/postinst
dpkg: error processing package checkbox-gtk (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Checkbox 0.16.7 comes from saucy, and apparently it's trying to run the postinst file from checkbox, but if I recall correctly, checkbox 0.17.6-0ubuntu6 is a transitional empty package, so it will no longer ship this file.

Maybe we should upload a transitional checkbox-gtk package that supersedes 0.16.7 to avoid this situation.

[Daniel Manrique (roadmr)]

Another comment, checkbox-gtk is not installed in new versions of Ubuntu, so the problem here is that it's been carried in the installation since the initial system was installed with 11.10, which did ship checkbox-gtk.

A workaround for your problem would be manually removing checkbox-gtk (sudo apt-get purge checkbox-gtk), then trying the release upgrade again.