package man-db 2.5.7-2 failed to install/upgrade: el subproceso script post-installation instalado devolvió el código de salida de error 2

[reciclaje]

mistake installing jdownloader and in actualizations:

                              E: tzdata: el subproceso script post-installation instalado devolvió el código de salida de error 2
"compilation failed in require at usr/share/perl/5.10/POSIX.pm line 36

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: man-db 2.5.7-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Dec 28 22:20:28 2010
ErrorMessage: el subproceso script post-installation instalado devolvió el código de salida de error 2
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.5.7-2 failed to install/upgrade: el subproceso script post-installation instalado devolvió el código de salida de error 2

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[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.