Comment 8 for bug 592102

I think you should try reinstalling the man-db package. sounds like its been
the cause of the failed instqlll in your case.

On Jul 17, 2010 4:55 AM, "Grant Paton-Simpson" <email address hidden> wrote:

I (wife of this launchpad account holder) got this problem, but I've
been having lots of problems for a couple of weeks, with all
applications crashing regularly. Anyway, in case it helps, this is the
log file:

Processing triggers for man-db ...
dpkg: error processing man-db (--unpack):

subprocess installed post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation
fault)
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_NZ.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 man-db
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

-- package man-db 2.5.7-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed
post-installation script...