upgrade karmic ==> lucid fails

[Robert W. (Bob) Seidl]

Binary package hint: im-switch

lsb_release -rd ==> Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
                                     Release: 10.04
System -> About Ubuntu ==> v. 9.10 - the Karmic Koala

Doing an upgrade of an existing 9.10 to development 10.04 for testing.

update-manager -d

The process hangs after failure to upgrade im-switch:

Setting up im-switch (1.19) ...
update-alternatives: error: alternative path /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/lo-gtk doesn't exist.
dpkg: error processing im-switch (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Setting up javascript-common (7) ...

Requires that Update Manager is killed and clean-up of the system is performed. The system is left in a usable state.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 26 01:59:27 2009
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Package: im-switch 1.19
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-9.13-generic
SourcePackage: im-switch
Tags: lucid
Title: package im-switch 1.19 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-9-generic i686

[songuke (songuke-gmail)]

I also encountered this bug when upgrading from a working Lucid to Maverick Alpha. It seems nobody has fixed this bug yet.