package man-db 2.6.5-2 failed to install/upgrade: サブプロセス インストール済みの post-installation スクリプト はエラー終了ステータス 1 を返しました

[Tatsuo Indou]

when upgrade 13.10 to 14.04

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: man-db 2.6.5-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-18.32-generic 3.11.10.4
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 25 16:34:15 2014
DpkgTerminalLog: Log started: 2014-05-25 16:34:06
ErrorMessage: サブプロセス インストール済みの post-installation スクリプト はエラー終了ステータス 1 を返しました
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-06-20 (339 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.6.5-2 failed to install/upgrade: サブプロセス インストール済みの post-installation スクリプト はエラー終了ステータス 1 を返しました
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-05-25 (0 days ago)

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

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.