Comment 4 for bug 367378

I have a similar problem on Maverick.
The below error occurred during and apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  lirc setserial
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libvte-common libvte9 python-vte tzdata tzdata-java virtualbox-ose-dkms
6 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 2,003kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,576kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main tzdata-java all 2010m-0ubuntu0.10.10 [144kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main tzdata all 2010m-0ubuntu0.10.10 [680kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main libvte-common all 1:0.26.0-0ubuntu2 [34.7kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main libvte9 amd64 1:0.26.0-0ubuntu2 [572kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main python-vte amd64 1:0.26.0-0ubuntu2 [19.5kB]
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe virtualbox-ose-dkms all 3.2.8-dfsg-2ubuntu1 [552kB]
Fetched 2,003kB in 1s (1,379kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 273633 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing lirc ...
dpkg: error processing lirc (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Removing setserial ...
dpkg: error processing setserial (--remove):
 subprocess installed post-removal script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 lirc
 setserial
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)