Comment 0 for bug 990256

In the last day or so, I upgraded Ubuntu from 11.04 to 11.10, then to 12.04. The upgrade to 12.04 was first done using an alternate install CD, then further updates were made from the Internet. A partial upgrade was made after rebooting. This error showed up more than one time before I reported it. The computer is a gBox P4 model around 8-10 years old.

Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04 LTS"
Linux billy 3.2.0-24-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 25 08:43:52 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz
cpu MHz : 1691.518
MemTotal: 2029480 kB
SwapTotal: 522076 kB

After installing apt-show-versions, I was able to determine this:

$ apt-show-versions libxml-sax-expat-perl
libxml-sax-expat-perl/precise uptodate 0.40-2

So the error is a bit of a mystery to me.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libxml-sax-expat-perl 0.40-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 27 11:27:06 2012
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: libxml-sax-expat-perl
Title: package libxml-sax-expat-perl 0.40-2 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-27 (0 days ago)