package man-db 2.5.7-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Bug #1004266 reported by
Ian Donegan
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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man-db (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I am not sure where exactly the issue was. I was installing from a USB drive while trying to get the Internet hooked up and the message popped up.
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: man-db 2.5.7-2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 24 22:18:59 2012
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
LiveMediaBuild: EasyPeasy 1.6
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.5.7-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
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Thanks for your report. The basic problem here is that man-db's trigger uses debconf to decide whether to update the manual page database, but debconf is not always reliably usable in triggers. I finally figured out a simple way to avoid this problem, which I'm tracking as bug 1372673. If you are still affected by this locally (which I realise is unlikely in the case of some of the older bugs of this type), then running "sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt-get -f install" in a terminal should normally be enough to get the package management system back to a sensible state.