[Bug 780678] Re: Attempting to upgrade nspluginwrapper via apt-get fails with "error exit status 139" and a Segmentation fault

[amichair]

I was hit by this bug as well during the upgrade to Natty - was pretty
scary to see the entire upgrade process fail because of this, but
fortunately it looks like nothing else was affected and the upgrade
otherwise went ok (I hope).

I just wanted to share a simpler workaround I found, which may help find
the culprit as well:

before running the upgrade (or "apt-get install -f" if it's too late and
it already broke), just move the files under /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
to somewhere else (or rename the plugins folder and create an empty one
in its place), and after installation/fixing is complete, move them back
in place.

FWIW, I played around with this and found that the plugin to blame in my
case was skypebuttons.so - moving it alone was enough to prevent the
failure. I don't know if this is the same one causing trouble for others
too. In fact I have no idea what it is - it seems to be a Kopete plugin
(not anything from Skype itself), and I don't even use Kopete...

Anyway, I hope this helps someone.

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  Attempting to upgrade nspluginwrapper via apt-get fails with "error
  exit status 139" and a Segmentation fault

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