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package man-db 2.6.0.2-3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Bug #930027 reported by NamelessOne on 2012-02-10

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

package man-db 2.6.0.2-3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: man-db 2.6.0.2-3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-12.21-generic 3.2.2
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 10 11:56:56 2012
DuplicateSignature:
Unpacking replacement libc-bin ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
debconf: DbDriver "config": could not open /var/cache/debconf/config.dat
dpkg: error processing man-db (--unpack):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427)
SourcePackage: man-db
Title: package man-db 2.6.0.2-3 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-09 (0 days ago)

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NamelessOne (frure-8) wrote on 2012-02-10:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (310 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (660 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (931 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (121.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt Edit (63.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt Edit (628 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2012-02-10

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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.