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-common aspell aspell-en myspell-en-za myspell-en-gb myspell-en-au hyphen-en-us mythes-en-us openoffice.org-hyphenation Error in function: A fatal error occurred Please report this as a bug and include the files /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log and /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log in your report. The upgrade has aborted. Your original sources.list was saved in /etc/apt/sources.list.distUpgrade. 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-default-wordlist: Question empty but elements installed for class "wordlist" dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: return code: "0", value: "" Choices: , Manual symlink setting shared/packages-wordlist: return code: "10" owners/error: "shared/packages-wordlist doesn't exist" Installed elements: american (American English), british (British English) Please see "/usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common/README.problems", section "Debconf database corruption" for recovery info. update-default-wordlist: Selected wordlist "" 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.org-updatedicts; however: Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet. Package openoffice.org-updatedicts is not installed. Package dictionaries-common which provides openoffice.org-updatedicts is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package myspell-en-za (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-hyphenation: openoffice.org-hyphenation depends on dictionaries-common (>= 0.10) | openoffice.org-updatedicts; however: Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet. Package openoffice.org-updatedicts is not installed. Package dictionaries-common which provides openoffice.org-updatedicts is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package openoffice.org-hyphenation (--configure): 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.org-updatedicts; however: Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet. Package openoffice.org-updatedicts is not installed. Package dictionaries-common which provides openoffice.org-updatedicts is not configured yet. 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.org-updatedicts; however: Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet. Package openoffice.org-updatedicts is not installed. Package dictionaries-common which provides openoffice.org-updatedicts is not configured yet. 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.org-updatedicts; however: Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet. Package openoffice.org-updatedicts is not installed. Package dictionaries-common which provides openoffice.org-updatedicts is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing package mythes-en-us (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: dictionaries-common myspell-en-za openoffice.org-hyphenation 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-common. Error: "upgrades package dictionaries-common 1.20.5 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255"