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package man-db 2.5.7-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

Bug #665784 reported by mikebiller on 2010-10-24

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

This bug affects 1 person

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

Bug Description

Binary package hint: man-db

updating system

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: man-db 2.5.7-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.43-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 24 00:38:28 2010
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - i386 (20100429)
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.5.7-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

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mikebiller (mikebiller) wrote on 2010-10-24:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (801 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (450 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (48.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.gz Edit (59.8 KiB, application/x-gzip)

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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.