Quoting the attached VarLogDistupgradeTermlog.gz: > Setting up dictionaries-common (1.11.5ubuntu1) ... > ispell-autobuildhash: Processing 'american' dict. > update-default-wordlist: Question empty but elements installed for class > "wordlist" > dictionaries-common/default-wordlist: return code: "0", value: "" > Choices: , Manual symlink setting > shared/packages-wordlist: return code: "10" owners/error: > "shared/packages-wordlist doesn't exist" > Installed elements: american (American English), british (British English) > Please see "/usr/share/doc/dictionaries-common/README.problems", section > "Debconf database corruption" for recovery info. > update-default-wordlist: Selected wordlist "" > does not correspond to any installed package in the system > and no alternative wordlist could be selected. > dpkg: error processing dictionaries-common (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255
There is a large number of bug reports which display this symptom, but which have no apparent symptoms of actual debconf corruption. I am nominating this as a separate bug from bug #873551 although it could of course turn out in the end that the two are identical, or at least related. ** Summary changed: - package dictionaries-common 1.11.5ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 255 + shared/packages-wordlist: return code: "10" owners/error: "shared/packages-wordlist doesn't exist" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/862610 Title: shared/packages-wordlist: return code: "10" owners/error: "shared /packages-wordlist doesn't exist" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dictionaries-common/+bug/862610/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
