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package clamav-base 0.95.3 dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.10.3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128

Bug #674132 reported by Arlene Couture on 2010-11-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #442941: debconf failed to upgrade from 1.5.27ubuntu1 to 1.5.27ubuntu2: exit status 128 - Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	debconf (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: clamav

This package crashed the system. Version 9.01

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 11 11:51:22 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: clamav-base 0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.10.3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: clamav
Title: package clamav-base 0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.10.3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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Arlene Couture (angeleyes43) wrote on 2010-11-11:

Dependencies.txt Edit (918 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (40.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (14.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Chuck Short (zulcss) on 2010-11-15

affects:

clamav (Ubuntu) → dpkg (Ubuntu)

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2011-03-17:

Here is the error:

Setting up clamav-base (0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.10.3) ...
Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66.
Use of uninitialized value $reply in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 67.
Use of uninitialized value $reply in split at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 68.
Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66.
Use of uninitialized value $reply in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 67.
Use of uninitialized value $reply in split at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 68.
Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66.
Use of uninitialized value $reply in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 67.
Use of uninitialized value $reply in split at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 68.
Use of uninitialized value $ret in string eq at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 109.
dpkg: error processing clamav-base (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 128

Its unclear to me if the warnings will cause the failure or not.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2011-03-17:

I reassign to debconf on the assumption that the error may have caused the failure. Please reassign if this assumption is incorrect.

affects:

dpkg (Ubuntu) → debconf (Ubuntu)

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2011-08-22:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 442941, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.