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package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: el subproceso instalado el script post-installation devolvió el código de salida de error 255

Bug #795979 reported by WindTux on 2011-06-11

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

the error message appeared when starting session

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
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jun 10 01:03:57 2011
ErrorMessage: el subproceso instalado el script post-installation devolvió el código de salida de error 255
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: el subproceso instalado el script post-installation devolvió el código de salida de error 255
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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WindTux (windtux) wrote on 2011-06-11:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (413 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (780 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (443 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (251.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) on 2011-06-11

affects:

ubuntu → man-db (Ubuntu)

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-10-25:

Can't exec "/var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.config": Permission denied at /usr/share/perl/5.10/IPC/Open3.pm line 168.
open2: exec of /var/lib/dpkg/info/man-db.config configure /usr/share/man failed at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 59
dpkg:error while processing man-db (--unpack):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

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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.