[Bug 778501] Re: package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

[Robert Roth]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 746912 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/746912

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** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 746912
   package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

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Title:
  package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed
  post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Status in “man-db” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: man-db

  Was installing deluge (torrent program) with apt-get. The downloading
  phase had just finished. In another terminal I ran `sudo tasksel`. I
  didn't run anything in the tasksel window. Then the apt-get of deluge
  failed.

  1) jake at daedalus64:~/src/quodlibet-2.3$ lsb_release -rd
  Description:    Ubuntu 11.04
  Release:        11.04

  2) ?

  3) I expected the install of deluge to finish, OR tasksel to fail to
  open as an installer like synaptic and apt-get do when there is
  another installer running.

  4) tasksel didn't not warn of another installer running, and caused
  the other installer to fail.

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: man-db 2.5.9-4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri May  6 06:15:31 2011
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  SourcePackage: man-db
  Title: package man-db 2.5.9-4 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)