package libxml-sax-perl 0.96+dfsg-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Peter N. M. Hansteen]

Binary package hint: libxml-sax-perl

nooshanpet@nooshanpet-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install pbuilder debootstrap devscripts
[sudo] password for nooshanpet:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
devscripts is already the newest version.
Suggested packages:
  pbuilder-uml cowdancer
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  debootstrap pbuilder
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 382kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,405kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main debootstrap 1.0.20 [54.1kB]
Get:2 http://no.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main pbuilder 0.189ubuntu1 [328kB]
Fetched 382kB in 0s (1,265kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package debootstrap.
(Reading database ... 299558 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking debootstrap (from .../debootstrap_1.0.20_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package pbuilder.
Unpacking pbuilder (from .../pbuilder_0.189ubuntu1_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 1 added doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Setting up libxml-sax-perl (0.96+dfsg-1) ...
update-perl-sax-parsers: Registering Perl SAX parser XML::SAX::PurePerl with priority 10...
Fatal: cannot call XML::SAX->save_parsers_debian().
You probably have a locally installed XML::SAX module.
See /usr/share/doc/libxml-sax-perl/README.Debian.gz .
dpkg: error processing libxml-sax-perl (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libxml-simple-perl:
 libxml-simple-perl depends on libxml-sax-perl; however:
  Package libxml-sax-perl is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libxml-simple-perl (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up debootstrap (1.0.20) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          Setting up pbuilder (0.189ubuntu1) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:
 libxml-sax-perl
 libxml-simple-perl
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Dec 16 14:07:00 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: libxml-sax-perl 0.96+dfsg-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: libxml-sax-perl
Title: package libxml-sax-perl 0.96+dfsg-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686