Comment 2 for bug 1419925

A following attempt to install (after several turns at apt-get remove/autoremove/clean/autoclean/purge, and a bit of forced removal via 'sudo rm -rf') contains this at the command line:

postgresql-9.3 postgresql-contrib-9.3
Suggested packages:
  uuid oidentd ident-server locales-all libdbd-pg-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libossp-uuid16 postgresql postgresql-9.3 postgresql-contrib
  postgresql-contrib-9.3
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,110 kB of archives.
After this operation, 13.7 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main libossp-uuid16 amd64 1.6.2-1.3ubuntu1 [29.6 kB]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main postgresql-9.3 amd64 9.3.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 [2,670 kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main postgresql all 9.3+154 [5,088 B]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main postgresql-contrib-9.3 amd64 9.3.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 [400 kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main postgresql-contrib all 9.3+154 [5,106 B]
Fetched 3,110 kB in 2s (1,145 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package libossp-uuid16.
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'postgresql-common' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'postgresql-9.4' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'postgresql-client-common' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'postgresql-client-9.3' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'postgresql-client-9.4' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
(Reading database ... 202568 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libossp-uuid16_1.6.2-1.3ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libossp-uuid16 (1.6.2-1.3ubuntu1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package postgresql-9.3.
Preparing to unpack .../postgresql-9.3_9.3.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking postgresql-9.3 (9.3.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package postgresql.
Preparing to unpack .../postgresql_9.3+154_all.deb ...
Unpacking postgresql (9.3+154) ...
Selecting previously unselected package postgresql-contrib-9.3.
Preparing to unpack .../postgresql-contrib-9.3_9.3.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking postgresql-contrib-9.3 (9.3.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
Selecting previously unselected package postgresql-contrib.
Preparing to unpack .../postgresql-contrib_9.3+154_all.deb ...
Unpacking postgresql-contrib (9.3+154) ...
Processing triggers for postgresql-common (166.pgdg14.04+1) ...
Setting up libossp-uuid16 (1.6.2-1.3ubuntu1) ...
Setting up postgresql-9.3 (9.3.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/postgresql-9.3.postinst: 9: .: Can't open /usr/share/postgresql-common/maintscripts-functions
dpkg: error processing package postgresql-9.3 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of postgresql:
 postgresql depends on postgresql-9.3; however:
  Package postgresql-9.3 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package postgresql (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of postgresql-contrib-9.3:
 postgresql-contrib-9.3 depends on postgresql-9.3 (= 9.3.5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1); however:
  Package postgresql-9.3 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package postgresql-contrib-9.3 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of postgresql-contrib:
 postgresql-contrib depends on postgresql-contrib-9.3; however:
  Package postgresql-contrib-9.3 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package postgresql-contrib (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaNo 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.
                                                                                                         No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                   ving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6.5) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 postgresql-9.3
 postgresql
 postgresql-contrib-9.3
 postgresql-contrib
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)