Cannot upgrade to new version, cannot install any packages

[isildur]

Tried to upgrade two times but failing on texlive packages.
Upgraded to version 9.04 had errors.
Upgraded agin today to Ubuntu karmic again errors with installing texlive packages.
I can't install any other packages.

pavlos@pavlos-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install texlive-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
texlive-base is already the newest version.
texlive-base set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-2.6.28-11 libdns45 python-qt4-common libsmbios2
  seahorse-plugins libisccc40 libqt4-xmlpatterns libqt4-help python-qt4
  libqt4-webkit liblwres40 gfortran-4.3 evolution-documentation-el
  linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic python-sip4 libpulsecore9 libbind9-40
  libisccfg40 thunderbird-locale-el libservlet2.3-java libisc45
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
24 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up tex-common (1.18) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time... done.
Building format(s) --all.
 This may take some time...
fmtutil-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/fmtutil.XXLAx9QR
Please include this file if you report a bug.

dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-recommended:
 texlive-latex-recommended depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-recommended (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cm-super-minimal:
 cm-super-minimal depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
 cm-super-minimal depends on texlive-latex-recommended; however:
  Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing cm-super-minimal (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cm-super:
 cm-super depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
 cm-super depends on texlive-latex-recomNo 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
                                                                          No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                        No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                      No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                    No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
  No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                              No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                            No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
          mended; however:
  Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
 cm-super depends on cm-super-minimal; however:
  Package cm-super-minimal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing cm-super (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive:
 texlive depends on texlive-latex-recommended (>= 2007-11); however:
  Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex-extra:
 texlive-latex-extra depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex-extra (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-math-extra:
 texlive-math-extra depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkgNo apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                  : error processing texlive-math-extra (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dblatex:
 dblatex depends on texlive (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive is not configured yet.
 dblatex depends on texlive-latex-extra (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-latex-extra is not configured yet.
 dblatex depends on texlive-math-extra (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-math-extra is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing dblatex (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex-bin:
 tetex-bin depends on texlive (>= 2007-11); however:
  Package texlive is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-polish:
 texlive-lang-polish depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-lang-polish (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-bibtex-extra:
 texlive-bibtex-extra depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-bibtex-extra (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-lang-czechslovak:
 texlive-lang-czechslovak depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-lang-czechslovak (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-publishers:
 texlive-publishers depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-publishers (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tetex-extra:
 tetex-extra depends on texlive (>= 2007-11); however:
  Package texlive is not configured yet.
 tetex-extra depends on texlive-lang-polish (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-lang-polish is not configured yet.
 tetex-extra depends on texlive-latex-extra (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-latex-extra is not configured yet.
 tetex-extra depends on texlive-bibtex-extra (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-bibtex-extra is not configured yet.
 tetex-extra depends on texlive-lang-czechslovak (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-lang-czechslovak is not configured yet.
 tetex-extra depends on texlive-math-extra (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-math-extra is not configured yet.
 tetex-extra depends on texlive-publishers (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-publishers is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing tetex-extra (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of fig2ps:
 fig2ps depends on texlive-latex-recommended |No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                            No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
          No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                        No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                      No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                    No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                  No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                            No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                           tetex-extra; however:
  Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
  Package tetex-extra is not configured yet.
 fig2ps depends on texlive-latex-extra | tetex-extra; however:
  Package texlive-latex-extra is not configured yet.
  Package tetex-extra is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing fig2ps (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-formats-extra:
 texlive-formats-extra depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-formats-extra (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-science:
 texlive-science depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-science (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-omega:
 texlive-omega depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-omega (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-xetex:
 texlive-xetex depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-xetex (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-music:
 texlive-music depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-music (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-games:
 texlive-games depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-games (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-latex3:
 texlive-latex3 depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-latex3 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-humanities:
 texlive-humanities depends on tex-common (>= 1.18); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-humanities (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-full:
 texlive-full depends on texlive-science (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-science is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-omega (>= 2007-13); however:
  Package texlive-omega is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-formats-extra (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-formats-extra is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-xetex (>= 2007-13); however:
  Package texlive-xetex is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-music (>= 2007-13); however:
  Package texlive-music is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-bibtex-extra (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-bibtex-extra is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-games (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-games is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on cm-super (>= 0.3.3-3); however:
  Package cm-super is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-publishers (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-publishers is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-latex-extra (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-latex-extra is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-math-extra (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-math-extra is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-lang-polish (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-lang-polish is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-latex3 (>= 2007); however:
  Package texliNo apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                             ve-latex3 is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-lang-czechslovak (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-lang-czechslovak is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-latex-recommended (>= 2007-11); however:
  Package texlive-latex-recommended is not configured yet.
 texlive-full depends on texlive-humanities (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-humanities is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-full (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tex-common
 texlive-latex-recommended
 cm-super-minimal
 cm-super
 texlive
 texlive-latex-extra
 texlive-math-extra
 dblatex
 tetex-bin
 texlive-lang-polish
 texlive-bibtex-extra
 texlive-lang-czechslovak
 texlive-publishers
 tetex-extra
 fig2ps
 texlive-formats-extra
 texlive-science
 texlive-omega
 texlive-xetex
 texlive-music
 texlive-games
 texlive-latex3
 texlive-humanities
 texlive-full
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[shivan (kingshivan)]

I can confirm this one. Here's what I have:
shivan@altis:~$ sudo aptitude install tex-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
  tex-common
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Setting up tex-common (2.01~5) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time...
updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/updmap.Ilkb73w1
Please include this file if you report a bug.

Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d
causes updmap-sys to fail. Please check for files with extension
.dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory

dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tex-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up tex-common (2.01~5) ...
Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time...
updmap-sys failed. Output has been stored in
/tmp/updmap.TX8BgyyA
Please include this file if you report a bug.

Sometimes, not accepting conffile updates in /etc/texmf/updmap.d
causes updmap-sys to fail. Please check for files with extension
.dpkg-dist or .ucf-dist in this directory

dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tex-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done

[mehul (mehul-forums)]

I can confirm this too with ubuntu 9.04, This is after installing lyx. I get this everytime I run apt

Setting up tex-common (1.11.3) ...
dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Exec format error
dpkg: error processing tex-common (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-common:
 texlive-common depends on tex-common (>= 1.8); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-common (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-base-bin:
 texlive-base-bin depends on texlive-common (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-base-bin (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dvipdfmx:
 dvipdfmx depends on tetex-bin | texlive-base-bin; however:
  Package tetex-bin is not installed.
  Package texlive-base-bin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing dvipdfmx (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dvipng:
 dvipng depends on tetex-bin | texlive-base-bin; however:
  Package tetex-bin is not installed.
  PacNo 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
                             No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                           No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                            No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                          No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                           No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                         No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                          No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                                        kage texlive-base-bin is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing dvipng (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of texlive-doc-base:
 texlive-doc-base depends on tex-common (>= 1.11); however:
  Package tex-common is not configured yet.
 texlive-doc-base depends on texlive-common (>= 2007); however:
  Package texlive-common is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing texlive-doc-base (--configure)...

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hi Isildur,
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 374859

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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