package software-center 5.1.9 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

[Krzysztof]

 this error appear after login

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.1.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic-pae 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 22 23:57:57 2012
ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120211)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: software-center
Title: package software-center 5.1.9 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-22 (3 days ago)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is the root of the problem:

Setting up python-twisted-core (11.1.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Illegal instruction
dpkg: error processing python-twisted-core (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 232

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-ubuntu-sso-client:
 python-ubuntu-sso-client depends on python-twisted-core; however:
  Package python-twisted-core is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python-ubuntu-sso-client (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-sso-client:
 ubuntu-sso-client depends on python-ubuntu-sso-client (= 2.99.4-0ubuntu2); however:
  Package python-ubuntu-sso-client is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing ubuntu-sso-client (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

[Jean-Paul Calderone (exarkun)]

This doesn't appear to be a problem with "twisted (Ubuntu)". More likely it is a hardware failure - either hard drive, memory, or network card. Some part of the installation tool chain should probably be checking a checksum of some sort (although if you have bad memory, your data might pass a checksum check and *then* be corrupted causing a problem like this).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.