[Bug 1076799] Re: Installing LAMP via "sudo tasksel install lamp-server" fails abruptly (on fresh install of 12.10)

Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Tue Sep 23 14:04:12 UTC 2014


*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1372673 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1372673

Thanks for your report.  The basic problem here is that man-db's trigger
uses debconf to decide whether to update the manual page database, but
debconf is not always reliably usable in triggers.  I finally figured
out a simple way to avoid this problem, which I'm tracking as bug
1372673.  If you are still affected by this locally (which I realise is
unlikely in the case of some of the older bugs of this type), then
running "sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt-get -f install" in a
terminal should normally be enough to get the package management system
back to a sensible state.

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1372673
   excessive debconf use when triggered

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Title:
  Installing LAMP via "sudo tasksel install lamp-server" fails abruptly
  (on fresh install of 12.10)

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

Bug description:
  Command line just said: tasksel: aptitude failed (100)

  Bug report generator included this:
  package man-db 2.6.3-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

  nathanbrauer at mastercodeslinger:~$ apt-cache policy tasksel
  tasksel:
    Installed: 2.88ubuntu12
    Candidate: 2.88ubuntu12
    Version table:
   *** 2.88ubuntu12 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: man-db 2.6.3-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Nov  8 15:16:42 2012
  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
  SourcePackage: man-db
  Title: package man-db 2.6.3-1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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