openoffice fails to install dpkg stalls

[Chris Crichton]

Binary package hint: writer2latex

Ubuntu 9.04
synaptic package openoffice.org 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3
installation does not complete, force kill only option, then after reboot dpkg --configure -a gets to "writer2latex" and hangs

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ErrorMessage: subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
Package: openoffice.org-writer2latex 0.5-8ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: writer2latex
Title: package openoffice.org-writer2latex 0.5-8ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Interrupt)
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-3-rt i686

[Christophe (chr)]

openoffice.org-emailmerge is another package of OOO for which this hanging also occurs:

Excerpt from dpkg log:

2009-09-09 10:51:42 status unpacked openoffice.org-writer2latex 0.5-8ubuntu1
2009-09-09 10:51:59 remove openoffice.org-writer2latex 0.5-8ubuntu1 0.5-8ubuntu1
2009-09-09 10:51:59 status half-installed openoffice.org-writer2latex 0.5-8ubuntu1
2009-09-09 10:51:59 status config-files openoffice.org-writer2latex 0.5-8ubuntu1
2009-09-09 10:51:59 status config-files openoffice.org-writer2latex 0.5-8ubuntu1
2009-09-09 10:51:59 status config-files openoffice.org-writer2latex 0.5-8ubuntu1
2009-09-09 10:51:59 status not-installed openoffice.org-writer2latex <none>
2009-09-09 10:53:16 startup archives install
2009-09-09 10:53:32 startup archives install
2009-09-09 10:56:00 startup archives unpack
2009-09-09 10:56:00 install openoffice.org-emailmerge <none> 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3
2009-09-09 10:56:00 status half-installed openoffice.org-emailmerge 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3
2009-09-09 10:56:01 status unpacked openoffice.org-emailmerge 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3
2009-09-09 10:56:01 status unpacked openoffice.org-emailmerge 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3
2009-09-09 10:56:02 startup packages configure
2009-09-09 10:56:02 configure openoffice.org-emailmerge 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3
2009-09-09 10:56:02 status unpacked openoffice.org-emailmerge 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3
2009-09-09 10:56:02 status half-configured openoffice.org-emailmerge 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu3

Hangs on the same issue 'Adding extension...':

Adding extension /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.0/program/mailmerge.py...

[Christophe (chr)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220911

seems to be a previous version of the same bug(s)

[Christophe (chr)]

Added Chris Cheney as watcher, since he helped solve the 220911 bug. (I hope I did not break the etiquette...)