package dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

[Derrick Coetzee]

I was performing a normal upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 on an EC2 server.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-virtual 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-virtual i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 4 04:52:43 2012
Ec2AMI: ami-76f0061f
Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown)
Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1a
Ec2InstanceType: m1.small
Ec2Kernel: aki-407d9529
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: dictionaries-common
Title: package dictionaries-common 1.12.1ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-04 (0 days ago)

[era (era)]

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 #862610, 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.