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(Get the code!)
Please forgive me or gently redirect me if I'm not observing proper Ubuntu 1 etiquette. Anyways, instead of reporting another bug, I searched and found this one. My feeling is my comment is not a worthless "me too" and could help root cause the issue.
Summary:
1. My issue differs in that I upgraded from LTS 12.
2. Also adding additional error messages. Other packages failed but I my approach was to focus on the dictionaries-common since that seem cause the most headache when logging into my desktop.
Ubuntu is a VM inside VMware Fusion 5.0.5. I took a VM snapshot before upgrading to LTS 14 so I can rollback if I did something wrong. Desktop graphics seems a "little janky" compared to LTS 12 (don't know how to describe without huge paragraphs) in Komodo and Chrome so I am going to approach LTS 14 with caution, not make many system changes and rollback if I have further problems.
Thank you Ubuntu for your work you've done to make Linux easier to use.
Details:
Upgraded from LTS 12 to 14 via command line:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo do-release-upgrade
On the upgrade, everything seemed good until the end when packages for dictionaries and spelling failed to install.
Error message from install dialog is below.
// Begin error message
Errors were encountered while processing:
dictionaries-
aspell
aspell-en
myspell-en-za
myspell-en-gb
myspell-en-au
hyphen-en-us
mythes-en-us
openoffice.
Error in function:
A fatal error occurred
Please report this as a bug and include the files
/var/log/
your report. The upgrade has aborted.
Your original sources.list was saved in
/etc/apt/
SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Could not install the upgrades
The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A
recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).
Setting up dictionaries-common (1.20.5) ...
update-
dictionaries-
Choices: , Manual symlink setting
shared/
Installed elements: american (American English), british (British English)
Please see "/usr/share/
"Debconf database corruption" for recovery info.
update-
does not correspond to any installed package in the system
and no alternative wordlist could be selected.
dpkg: error processing package dictionaries-common (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of myspell-en-za:
myspell-en-za depends on dictionaries-common (>= 0.10) | openoffice.
Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet.
Package openoffice.
Package dictionaries-common which provides openoffice.
dpkg: error processing package myspell-en-za (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.
openoffice.
Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet.
Package openoffice.
Package dictionaries-common which provides openoffice.
dpkg: error processing package openoffice.
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of aspell:
aspell depends on dictionaries-common (>> 0.40); however:
Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package aspell (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of myspell-en-au:
myspell-en-au depends on dictionaries-common (>= 1.0); however:
Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package myspell-en-au (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hyphen-en-us:
hyphen-en-us depends on dictionaries-common (>= 0.10) | openoffice.
Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet.
Package openoffice.
Package dictionaries-common which provides openoffice.
dpkg: error processing package hyphen-en-us (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of myspell-en-gb:
myspell-en-gb depends on dictionaries-common (>= 0.10) | openoffice.
Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet.
Package openoffice.
Package dictionaries-common which provides openoffice.
dpkg: error processing package myspell-en-gb (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of aspell-en:
aspell-en depends on aspell (>= 0.60.3-2); however:
Package aspell is not configured yet.
aspell-en depends on dictionaries-common (>= 0.49.2); however:
Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package aspell-en (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mythes-en-us:
mythes-en-us depends on dictionaries-common (>= 0.10) | openoffice.
Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet.
Package openoffice.
Package dictionaries-common which provides openoffice.
dpkg: error processing package mythes-en-us (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
dictionaries-
myspell-en-za
openoffice.
aspell
myspell-en-au
hyphen-en-us
myspell-en-gb
aspell-en
mythes-en-us
Upgrade complete
The upgrade has completed but there were errors during the upgrade
process.
To continue please press [ENTER]
// End error message
After recommended restart and logging into Desktop, I was greeted with 3 error messages. 2 system errors and one about not being able to install package dictionaries-
Error: "upgrades package dictionaries-common 1.20.5 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255"