When you see, for example: Setting up dbconfig-common (1.8.40) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Exec format error
Then the problem is probably that /var/lib/dpkg/info/dbconfig- common.postinst is not a runnable script (got corrupted by the crash). I had something like that (in my case, the machine crashed during package installation, and the files ended up being 0 bytes), and ended up manually replacing the postrm and the postinst scripts of the offending packages, with a script that does nothing, then 'dpkg --purge' them to get rid of the packages, then re-install the packages. dpkg really should allow a better way out of a situation like this (maybe it has, but I don't know how). -- system crash ,can't install anything now https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/374136 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
