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package man-db 2.5.7-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #701548 reported by viethung on 2011-01-11

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

trying to remove a gnome application, but i receive this error. the error stop me installing new application either

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: man-db 2.5.7-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic i686
AptOrdering:
bouml: Install
bouml: Configure
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 11 11:46:20 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100831.2)
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.5.7-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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viethung (chu-viet-hung-vn) wrote on 2011-01-11:

Dependencies.txt Edit (890 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (443 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (64.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.gz Edit (7.7 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.