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package mount 2.17.2-3.3ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 127

Bug #720073 reported by Jeremiah C. Foster on 2011-02-16

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #719754: package mount 2.17.2-3.3ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 127. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	util-linux (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: util-linux

Also, lintian found some minor misspellings in the man pages in this package.

Looks like the preinst script in the mount package is failing.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: mount 2.17.2-3.3ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-3.30-generic-pae 2.6.38-rc4
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-3-generic-pae i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 16 14:40:55 2011
DpkgTerminalLog:
Preparing to replace mount 2.17.2-3.3ubuntu4 (using .../mount_2.17.2-9.1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/preinst: 49: dpkg-vendor: not found
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mount_2.17.2-9.1ubuntu1_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 127
ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 127
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110210)
SourcePackage: util-linux
Title: package mount 2.17.2-3.3ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 127

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Jeremiah C. Foster (jeremiah-foster) wrote on 2011-02-16:

AptOrdering.txt Edit (3.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (764 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Df.txt Edit (470 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dmesg.txt Edit (26.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Jeremiah C. Foster (jeremiah-foster) wrote on 2011-02-16:

One thing to note is that this was being run in VirtualBox on a 2009 Apple Powerboook.

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-02-16:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #719754, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.