Comment 1 for bug 125424

I came across the exact same error message. When trying to do my nightly updates just a few minutes ago, I got this:

dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-java-common:
 openoffice.org-java-common depends on openoffice.org-common; however:
  Package openoffice.org-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-java-common (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev:
 openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev depends on openoffice.org-java-common (>> 2.2.0-4); however:
  Package openoffice.org-java-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 openoffice.org-common
 openoffice.org-java-common
 openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)