[Bug 1139114] Re: dictionaries-common post-installation failed

[David Tombs]

I ran /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl which made the following changes:
david at dreamon:/usr/share/debconf$ diff -u /var/cache/debconf/config.dat{-old,}    | grep ^[+-]Name
+Name: popularity-contest/participate
+Name: popularity-contest/submiturls
+Name: shared/packages-wordlist
+Name: wamerican/languages
+Name: wbritish/languages
david at dreamon:/usr/share/debconf$ diff -u /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat{-old,} | grep ^[+-]Name
+Name: popularity-contest/participate
+Name: popularity-contest/submiturls
+Name: shared/packages-wordlist
+Name: wamerican/languages
+Name: wbritish/languages

And the error is fixed now. I think this is a dupe of bug 873551 except
that was an upgrade from Natty to Oneirc (11.04 to 11.10). Should I mark
this as a duplicate?

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Title:
  dictionaries-common post-installation failed

Status in “dictionaries-common” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  During an upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 dictionaries-common post-
  installation failed with these lines in apt-term.log (full log
  attached):

  Setting up dictionaries-common (1.12.10) ...
  Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-language-selector-ja-jp.conf", line 126: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not works as expected
  [snip more Fontconfig warnings]
  update-default-wordlist: Question empty but elements installed for class "wordlist"
    dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: return code: "0", value: ""
    Choices: , Manual symlink setting
    shared/packages-wordlist: return code: "10" owners/error: "shared/packages-wordlist doesn't exist"
    Installed elements: american (American English), british (British English)

    Please see "/usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common/README.problems", section
    "Debconf database corruption" for recovery info.

  update-default-wordlist: Selected wordlist "" 
  does not correspond to any installed package in the system
  and no alternative wordlist could be selected.
  dpkg: error processing dictionaries-common (--configure):
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: dictionaries-common 1.12.10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-25.39-generic 3.5.7.4
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Mar  1 22:30:33 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-11 (263 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: dictionaries-common
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2013-03-02 (0 days ago)

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