xserver failed to preconfigure, with exit status 139

[Daniel Stone]

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 00:44 +0100, andre wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to debian system e dpkg....
> 
> I get this errors while trying to install xserver, but for the moment I 
> installed it manually with the magic "mc".
> 
> ####################################
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> xserver-xorg failed to preconfigure, with exit status 139
> (Reading database ... 103271 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking xserver-xorg (from .../xserver-xorg_6.8.1-0.4_i386.deb) ...
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Where are you getting this version?  It is not from Ubuntu.