package nspluginwrapper 1.2.2-0ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139

[eldad]

Binary package hint: nspluginwrapper

package name: nspluginwrapper
Installed: 1.2.2-0ubuntu5
  Candidate: 1.2.2-0ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.2-0ubuntu5 0
        500 http://ubuntu-archive.datahop.it jaunty/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nspluginwrapper 1.2.2-0ubuntu5
SourcePackage: nspluginwrapper
Title: package nspluginwrapper 1.2.2-0ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

[jamesh (jamesrh)]

A segmentation fault in the nspluginwrapper install process (throwing a exit status 139) on 64bit ubuntu 9.04 jaunty jackalope is preventing the installation of the shockwave flash plugin.

Upgrading from Intrepid to Jaunty, got errors concerning the following packages:

nspluginwrapper
flashplugin-installer
flashplugin-nonfree

I ran " sudo aptitude purge nspluginwrapper flashplugin-installer flashplugin-nonfree" and tried re-loading with "sudo
apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree" and got this error message:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
flashplugin-nonfree is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up nspluginwrapper (1.2.2-0ubuntu5) ...
plugin dirs: :/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
Segmentation fault
dpkg: error processing nspluginwrapper (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of flashplugin-installer:
 flashplugin-installer depends on nspluginwrapper (>= 0.9.91.4-2ubuntu1); however:
  Package nspluginwrapper is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-installer (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of flashplugin-nonfree:
 flashplugin-nonfree depends on flashplugin-installer; however:
  Package flashplugin-installer is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing flashplugin-nonfree (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                       Errors were encountered while processing:
 nspluginwrapper
 flashplugin-installer
 flashplugin-nonfree
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried to manually configure with "sudo dpkg --configure nspluginwrapper" and got:

Setting up nspluginwrapper (1.2.2-0ubuntu5) ...
plugin dirs: :/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
Auto-update plugins from /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
Segmentation fault
dpkg: error processing nspluginwrapper (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nspluginwrapper

[jamesh (jamesrh)]

After reading bug# 357965 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nspluginwrapper/+bug/357965/comments/5 ), I uninstalled the gcu-plugin (gnome chemistry viewer) with "sudo aptitude purge gcu-plugin"

This solved the problem, and nspluginwrapper configured correctly.

It seems that when nspluginwrapper is looking through the plugins to install it crashes with some plugins (replicatable with "sudo nspluginwrapper -a -v -u").

There are probably other plugins causing this problem, since there are alot of reports of errors.

I'll try to file a bug report under the gcu-plugin package.

[jamesh (jamesrh)]

See bug# 367448 for gnome-chemistry-utils

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367448