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package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: il sottoprocesso vecchio script di post-installation ha restituito lo stato di errore 9

Bug #845512 reported by Andrea Girvasi on 2011-09-09

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

Ubuntu reported me this error while installing Grub Customizer.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: man-db 2.5.9-4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.49-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 9 13:13:50 2011
ErrorMessage: il sottoprocesso vecchio script di post-installation ha restituito lo stato di errore 9
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: il sottoprocesso vecchio script di post-installation ha restituito lo stato di errore 9
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Andrea Girvasi (jeerva) wrote on 2011-09-09:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (121 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (782 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (482 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (51.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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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.