package tasksel 2.70ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade:

[Tomdkat]

Binary package hint: tasksel

I was upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 for the AMD64 platform when the 'tasksel' package failed to upgrade successfully.

tom@deathstar:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04
tom@deathstar:~$ apt-cache policy tasksel
tasksel:
  Installed: 2.70ubuntu5
  Candidate: 2.70ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 2.70ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
tom@deathstar:~$

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 25 23:27:37 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ErrorMessage:
 ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Package: tasksel 2.70ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: tasksel
Title: package tasksel 2.70ubuntu5 failed to install/upgrade:
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic x86_64

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bug report as attachments? Thanks in advance.

[Tomdkat (tomdkat)]

Sure, I'll attach the log files.

Here is apt-autoinst-fixup.log.

[Tomdkat (tomdkat)]

Here is apt.log.

[Tomdkat (tomdkat)]

Here is main.log.

[Tomdkat (tomdkat)]

Here is main_pre_req.log.

[Tomdkat (tomdkat)]

Here is a ZIP file with apt-term.log and term.log.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

tasksel fails to install with this error:

Setting up tasksel (2.70ubuntu5) ...
No protocol specified
Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0 at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 60.
dpkg: error processing tasksel (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1