[Bug 1385478] Re: update-alternatives broken after installing icedtea-plugin (or even icedtea-netx) in Utopic Unicorn

[Sergey Papilin]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1363785 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1363785

** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1363785
   package icedtea-netx:amd64 1.5.1-1ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2

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Title:
  update-alternatives broken after installing icedtea-plugin (or even
  icedtea-netx) in Utopic Unicorn

Status in “icedtea-web” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Today I removed all icedtea packages and tried to install icedtea-
  plugin via `sudo apt-get install icedtea-plugin`. It resulted in error
  message "E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)".
  Investigation shows that when installing icedtea-netx package
  following messages are printed to the console:

  icedtea-netx:i386 (1.5.1-1ubuntu1) wird eingerichtet ...
  update-alternatives: Warnung: Neuinstallation der Alternative /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/bin/itweb-settings ist erzwungen, weil Linkgruppe itweb-settings defekt ist
  update-alternatives: Warnung: /usr/share/man/man1/itweb-settings.1.gz wird nicht durch einen Link ersetzt
  update-alternatives: Warnung: Neuinstallation der Alternative /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/jre/bin/itweb-settings ist erzwungen, weil Linkgruppe itweb-settings defekt ist
  update-alternatives: Warnung: /usr/share/man/man1/itweb-settings.1.gz wird nicht durch einen Link ersetzt
  update-alternatives: Fehler: Alternativen-Pfad /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-i386/jre/bin/javaws existiert nicht
  dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Paketes icedtea-netx:i386 (--configure):
   Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 2 zurück
  Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
   icedtea-netx:i386
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: icedtea-netx (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-23.31-generic 3.16.4
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: i386
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Oct 24 22:22:08 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-24 (944 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: icedtea-web
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-23 (0 days ago)

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