Comment 4 for bug 151186

Something like this happens still in Hardy:

$ sudo apt-get install timidity
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
timidity is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up timidity (2.13.2-19ubuntu1) ...
 * Starting TiMidity++ ALSA midi emulation... [fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript timidity, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing timidity (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of solfege:
 solfege depends on timidity; however:
  Package timidity is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing solfege (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 timidity
 solfege
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)