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package man-db 2.6.1-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #1166129 reported by Kabir Roy Chowdhury on 2013-04-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1372673: excessive debconf use when triggered. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	man-db (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

1. while executing "sudo apt-get install audacity" the first time I got a window with EULA for Microsoft terms/conditions, however the <ok> btton did not work - I killed the window.

2. On re-running, I had to remove some locks using "sudo rm ..."

3. Then running "sudo apt-get install audacity" I got following errors:

-- dpkg: warning: files list file for package `ttf-mscorefonts-installer' missing, assuming package has no files currently installed.

-- dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4ubuntu3_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1

-- dpkg: error processing man-db (--unpack):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

-- Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/ttf-mscorefonts-installer_3.4ubuntu3_all.deb

and finally:

man-db
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: man-db 2.6.1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Apr 8 12:05:08 2013
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.6.1-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Kabir Roy Chowdhury (kabir-rc) wrote on 2013-04-08:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (437 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (676 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (335 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (56.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DuplicateSignature.txt Edit (436 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2013-05-07

tags:

removed: need-duplicate-check

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2014-02-27:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in man-db (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote on 2014-09-23:

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.