package susv4 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[S Jones]

installation fails on Ubuntu 14.10

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: susv4 (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-16.22-generic 3.16.2
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 17 12:57:41 2014
DuplicateSignature: package:susv4:(not installed):subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-16 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140828)
SourcePackage: sus
Title: package susv4 (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[eresquigal (eresquigal)]

Also happens in Ubuntu 15.10

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root@quad:/tmp# apt-get install susv4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  susv4
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3146 B of archives.
After this operation, 15,4 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://pt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/multiverse susv4 all 7.20150719 [3146 B]
Fetched 3146 B in 0s (41,2 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package susv4.
(Reading database ... 561821 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../susv4_7.20150719_all.deb ...
Unpacking susv4 (7.20150719) ...
Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.6) ...
Processing 1 added doc-base file...
Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/susv4', line 9: all `Format' sections are invalid.
Note: `install-docs --verbose --check file_name' may give more details about the above error.
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Setting up susv4 (7.20150719) ...
Fetching file...
--2016-04-09 17:13:27-- http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/download/susv4tc1.tar.bz2
Resolving pubs.opengroup.org (pubs.opengroup.org)... 69.80.200.148
Connecting to pubs.opengroup.org (pubs.opengroup.org)|69.80.200.148|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3638404 (3,5M) [application/x-bzip2]
Saving to: ‘/tmp/tmp.mVoXoEprMc/susv4tc1.tar.bz2’

susv4tc1.tar.bz2 100%[======================================================>] 3,47M 566KB/s in 7,8s

2016-04-09 17:13:35 (454 KB/s) - ‘/tmp/tmp.mVoXoEprMc/susv4tc1.tar.bz2’ saved [3638404/3638404]

Verifying SHA512 checksum...
dpkg: error processing package susv4 (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 susv4
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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I've pulled the pub package from the opengroup site with wget http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/download/susv4tc1.tar.bz2
It decompresses and extracts without errors, contents are aprently Ok.

Checked the md5 & sha512
root@quad:/tmp# sha512sum susv4tc1.tar.bz2
a646544074cb13b891b71d83fbe65dc23665e4bce1fdef09931f3025229eb7225e2ff620f05646d48a0256d53c12c39282d155eba2d7bba3831ab1b87d7e640b susv4tc1.tar.bz2
root@quad:/tmp# md5sum susv4tc1.tar.bz2
f520ef9720d17dee5aa1684c177fedb8 susv4tc1.tar.bz2

Checked the post-install script of susv4 (/var/lib/dpkg/info/susv4.postinst)
and it tests against SHA512SUM="00e3f7a4ac96e029e06ce712c9d8cf217747c0b68c5e62cc7562b14cd03beb59beb8aaba649076cc25799842cd2aa28d86a89a1615d95220a3a6c63717f883b9"
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SHA512SUM in /var/lib/dpkg/info/susv4.postinst should be changed to a646544074cb13b891b71d83fbe65dc23665e4bce1fdef09931f3025229eb7225e2ff620f05646d48a0256d53c12c39282d155eba2d7bba3831ab1b87d7e640b

[eresquigal (eresquigal)]

Still present on Xenial Xerus

[[e-mail] (zhangboyang-id)]

still present on 14.04.5
p.s. I can confirm the sha512sum should be a646544074cb13b891b71d83fbe65dc23665e4bce1fdef09931f3025229eb7225e2ff620f05646d48a0256d53c12c39282d155eba2d7bba3831ab1b87d7e640b