reopen 242952 thanks console-common 0.7.40 has the same symptom as 0.7.39.
Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded: console-common 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/73.8kB of archives. After unpacking 115kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 38837 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace console-common 0.7.38 (using .../console-common_0.7.40_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/console-common_0.7.40_all.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 9 Loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz loadkeys: warning: this map uses Unicode symbols (perhaps you want to do `kbd_mode -u'?) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/console-common_0.7.40_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may result in duplicate errors or errors caused by missing dependencies. This is OK, only the errors above this message are important. Please fix them and run [I]nstall again Press enter to continue.