[Bug 659977] Re: dpkg returns error code 1

[Rex Tsai]

You can also try DEBIAN_FRONTEND='noninteractive' for different frontend
to see if the debconf still encountered Segmentation fault

** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  dpkg returns error code 1

Status in “dpkg” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: dpkg

  Just upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10. During the upgrade process a
  problem was reported when it tried to upgrade virtualbox (which
  previously was not in the repos and had to be installed manually).
  However, after everything was said and done I rebooted and everything
  looked fine until I tried to install or upgrade anything. Everytime I
  receive an error similar to this:

  sudo apt-get upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
    lirc setserial
  The following packages will be upgraded:
    libvte-common libvte9 python-vte tzdata tzdata-java virtualbox-ose-dkms
  6 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  4 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 2,003kB of archives.
  After this operation, 2,576kB disk space will be freed.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
  Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main tzdata-java all 2010m-0ubuntu0.10.10 [144kB]
  Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main tzdata all 2010m-0ubuntu0.10.10 [680kB]
  Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main libvte-common all 1:0.26.0-0ubuntu2 [34.7kB]
  Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main libvte9 amd64 1:0.26.0-0ubuntu2 [572kB]
  Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main python-vte amd64 1:0.26.0-0ubuntu2 [19.5kB]
  Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe virtualbox-ose-dkms all 3.2.8-dfsg-2ubuntu1 [552kB]
  Fetched 2,003kB in 1s (1,379kB/s)          
  Preconfiguring packages ...
  (Reading database ... 273633 files and directories currently installed.)
  Removing lirc ...
  dpkg: error processing lirc (--remove):
   subprocess installed post-removal script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
  No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                Removing setserial ...
  dpkg: error processing setserial (--remove):
   subprocess installed post-removal script killed by signal (Segmentation fault)
  No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                                Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   lirc
   setserial
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  I have gotten similar errors processing tzdata and man-db. I am also
  unable to remove anything.

  I am attaching my dpkg.log file which goes back before the time of the
  upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: dpkg 1.15.8.4ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Oct 13 09:46:57 2010
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: dpkg

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