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dictionaries-common package

  1. Bug #862610
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 862610

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era (era) wrote : Re: package dictionaries-common 1.11.5ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

Quoting the attached VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz:
> Setting up dictionaries-common (1.11.5ubuntu1) ...
> ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'american' dict.
> 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 dictionaries-common (--configure):
> subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

There is a large number of bug reports which display this symptom, but which have no apparent symptoms of actual debconf corruption. I am nominating this as a separate bug from bug #873551 although it could of course turn out in the end that the two are identical, or at least related.