package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess script post-installation installé was killed by signal (Processus arrêté)

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ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: man-db 2.5.9-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.44-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: dm_raid45 xor btrfs zlib_deflate libcrc32c usbhid hid radeon ttm drm_kms_helper drm tg3 floppy i2c_algo_bit ramzswap xvmalloc
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 29 09:03:20 2011
ErrorMessage: subprocess script post-installation installé was killed by signal (Processus arrêté)
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess script post-installation installé was killed by signal (Processus arrêté)
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[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.