fontconfig error update

Bug #14160 reported by Mike Basinger
8
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
fontconfig (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Adam Conrad

Bug Description

I'm getting a erroring trying to update fontconfig using apt-get dist-upgrade
I get the following error
dbasinge@pheonix:~$ sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up fontconfig (2.2.3-4ubuntu5) ...
dpkg: error processing fontconfig (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libfontconfig1:
 libfontconfig1 depends on fontconfig; however:
  Package fontconfig is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libfontconfig1 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 fontconfig
 libfontconfig1
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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reh4c (gene-hoffler) wrote :

I get the same error with Array 7 when using Synaptic to upgrade.
"subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10"

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Matt Galvin (mgalvin) wrote :

Being that this package will not install, it is blocking other packages from
being installed as well such as: libqt3c102-mt libarts1 kdelibs-bin kdelibs4
mpeglib libarts1-mpeglib and surely more. I can't get passed those.

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Adam Conrad (adconrad) wrote :

This bug is fixed in version 2.2.3-4ubuntu6, and subsequently
fixed "correctly" in 2.2.3-4ubuntu7.

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