[Bug 1812583] Re: libpaper1:amd64 package post-installation scriptreturned error status 1 during upgrade from Xenial 16.04 LTS to Bionic 18.04 LTS

[Brian Murray]

Here's the error message from Apttermlog.txt:

20031 Setting up libpaper1:amd64 (1.1.24+nmu5ubuntu1) ...^M
20032 ^M
20033 Creating config file /etc/papersize with new version^M
20034 Can't use string ("2") as an ARRAY ref while "strict refs" in use at /usr/bin/tl-paper line 112.^M
20035 run-parts: /etc/libpaper.d/texlive-base exited with return code 1^M
20036 ^[[1mdpkg:^[[0m error processing package libpaper1:amd64 (--configure):^M
20037  installed libpaper1:amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1^M


** Package changed: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) => libpaper (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  libpaper1:amd64 package post-installation scriptreturned error status
  1 during upgrade from Xenial 16.04 LTS to Bionic 18.04 LTS

Status in libpaper package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Bug already reported as Bug #1770878.
  My experience and output is the same.

  Is there any workaround at this point?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.29
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-13.14~18.04.1-generic 4.18.17
  Uname: Linux 4.18.0-13-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sun Jan 20 11:27:49 2019
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: release-upgrade
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2019-01-20 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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