package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: underprocessen installerade post-installation-skript dödades av signal (Brutet rör)

Bug #779282 reported by TBE
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 get this bugg when installed ubuntu on my computer.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: man-db 2.5.9-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun May 8 02:17:36 2011
ErrorMessage: underprocessen installerade post-installation-skript dödades av signal (Brutet rör)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: underprocessen installerade post-installation-skript dödades av signal (Brutet rör)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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TBE (tbe) wrote :
TBE (tbe)
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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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