package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocesso script post-installation instalado foi finalizado pelo sinal (Pipe quebrado)

Bug #773610 reported by Francisco Ambrozio
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #1372673: excessive debconf use when triggered. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: man-db

I was installing sshfs package and got this error.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: man-db 2.5.9-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic-pae 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic-pae i686
AptOrdering:
 sshfs: Install
 sshfs: Configure
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Apr 29 17:23:55 2011
DpkgTerminalLog:
 Desempacotando sshfs (de .../sshfs_2.2-1build1_i386.deb) ...
 Processando gatilhos para man-db ...
 dpkg: erro processando man-db (--unpack):
  subprocesso script post-installation instalado foi finalizado pelo sinal (Pipe quebrado)
ErrorMessage: subprocesso script post-installation instalado foi finalizado pelo sinal (Pipe quebrado)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocesso script post-installation instalado foi finalizado pelo sinal (Pipe quebrado)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Francisco Ambrozio (francisco-ambrozio) wrote :
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

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.

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