What I see in the speech-dispatcher.postinst script is the following: USER_NAME=speech-dispatcher HOME_DIR=/var/run/speech-dispatcher
if ! id -u $USER_NAME >/dev/null 2>&1; then adduser --quiet --system --ingroup audio \ --home $HOME_DIR \ --shell /bin/sh --disabled-login \ --gecos 'Speech Dispatcher' $USER_NAME chown -R $USER_NAME $HOME_DIR Can you tell me if you if you have a speech-dispatcher user in your /etc/passwd and what the home folder is? E.g. "grep speech-dispatcher /etc/passwd". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to speech-dispatcher in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1241211 Title: speech-dispatcher could not be installed when upgrading from Kubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 Status in “speech-dispatcher” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Got an error message while upgrading fron 13.04 to 13.10 (German) "Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1 zurü --- ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CrashDB: ubuntu DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-29 (384 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120820.1) MarkForUpload: True Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3 Tags: saucy dist-upgrade Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-17 (0 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom debian-tor dialout dip fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/speech-dispatcher/+bug/1241211/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp