package zephyr-clients not installed failed to install/upgrade: post-installation script returned error exit status 16

[Anyone]

I installed with Syanptic.

The event is also similar to #258042 bug, I think.

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 4 01:56:49 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: il sottoprocesso vecchio script di post-installation ha restituito lo stato di errore 16
Package: zephyr-clients (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: zephyr
Title: package zephyr-clients (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: il sottoprocesso vecchio script di post-installation ha restituito lo stato di errore 16
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Anders Kaseorg (andersk)]

Your dmesg log is full of ATA errors that could indicate a serious problem with your hard drive:

[ 2123.255696] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6
[ 2123.255701] ata4.00: BMDMA stat 0x66
[ 2123.255708] ata4.00: cmd 25/00:00:d0:98:f5/00:01:3c:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 131072 in
[ 2123.255709] res 51/84:c0:10:99:f5/84:00:3c:00:00/ec Emask 0x30 (host bus error)
[ 2123.255712] ata4.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 2123.255714] ata4.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
[ 2123.255722] ata4: soft resetting link
[ 2123.440380] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 2123.456381] ata4.01: configured for UDMA/133
[ 2123.456394] ata4: EH complete

Other than that, this looks like the same problem as bug 258042 so I will go ahead and mark it as a duplicate.