Had the same thing happen trying to install gutenprint on 13.10, Apire One 725.
------ florian@florian-aspireone:~$ sudo apt-get install gutenprint [sudo] password for florian: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-3.11.0-12 linux-headers-3.11.0-12-generic linux-image-3.11.0-12-generic linux-image-extra-3.11.0-12-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: alien apparmor-easyprof at build-essential debhelper debugedit dh-apparmor dpkg-dev g++ g++-4.8 heirloom-mailx lib32z1 libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libc6-i386 libjpeg62 libmail-sendmail-perl libpod-plainer-perl librpm3 librpmbuild3 librpmio3 librpmsign1 libsigsegv2 libstdc++-4.8-dev libsys-hostname-long-perl lsb lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-desktop lsb-graphics lsb-invalid-mta lsb-languages lsb-multimedia lsb-printing lsb-security m4 ncurses-term pax po-debconf rpm rpm-common rpm2cpio Suggested packages: lsb-rpm default-mta mail-transport-agent dh-make rpm-i18n debian-keyring g++-multilib g++-4.8-multilib gcc-4.8-doc libstdc++6-4.8-dbg libstdc++-4.8-doc libmail-box-perl elfutils Recommended packages: libqt3-mt The following NEW packages will be installed alien apparmor-easyprof at build-essential debhelper debugedit dh-apparmor dpkg-dev g++ g++-4.8 gutenprint heirloom-mailx lib32z1 libalgorithm-diff-perl libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl libalgorithm-merge-perl libc6-i386 libjpeg62 libmail-sendmail-perl libpod-plainer-perl librpm3 librpmbuild3 librpmio3 librpmsign1 libsigsegv2 libstdc++-4.8-dev libsys-hostname-long-perl lsb lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-desktop lsb-graphics lsb-invalid-mta lsb-languages lsb-multimedia lsb-printing lsb-security m4 ncurses-term pax po-debconf rpm rpm-common rpm2cpio 0 upgraded, 44 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/31.8 MB of archives. After this operation, 76.2 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! gutenprint Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable Selecting previously unselected package libjpeg62:amd64. (Reading database ... 323021 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libjpeg62:amd64 (from .../libjpeg62_6b1-3ubuntu1.13.10.1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libsigsegv2:amd64. Unpacking libsigsegv2:amd64 (from .../libsigsegv2_2.10-2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package dpkg-dev. Unpacking dpkg-dev (from .../dpkg-dev_1.16.12ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package po-debconf. Unpacking po-debconf (from .../po-debconf_1.0.16+nmu2ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package apparmor-easyprof. Unpacking apparmor-easyprof (from .../apparmor-easyprof_2.8.0-0ubuntu31.1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package dh-apparmor. Unpacking dh-apparmor (from .../dh-apparmor_2.8.0-0ubuntu31.1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package debhelper. Unpacking debhelper (from .../debhelper_9.20130630ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package librpmio3. Unpacking librpmio3 (from .../librpmio3_4.11.1-2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package librpm3. Unpacking librpm3 (from .../librpm3_4.11.1-2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package librpmbuild3. Unpacking librpmbuild3 (from .../librpmbuild3_4.11.1-2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package librpmsign1. Unpacking librpmsign1 (from .../librpmsign1_4.11.1-2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package rpm-common. Unpacking rpm-common (from .../rpm-common_4.11.1-2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package rpm2cpio. Unpacking rpm2cpio (from .../rpm2cpio_4.11.1-2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package debugedit. Unpacking debugedit (from .../debugedit_4.11.1-2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package rpm. Unpacking rpm (from .../rpm_4.11.1-2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package alien. Unpacking alien (from .../archives/alien_8.89_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package at. Unpacking at (from .../at_3.1.13-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libstdc++-4.8-dev:amd64. Unpacking libstdc++-4.8-dev:amd64 (from .../libstdc++-4.8-dev_4.8.1-10ubuntu9_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package g++-4.8. Unpacking g++-4.8 (from .../g++-4.8_4.8.1-10ubuntu9_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package g++. Unpacking g++ (from .../g++_4%3a4.8.1-2ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package build-essential. Unpacking build-essential (from .../build-essential_11.6ubuntu5_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package heirloom-mailx. Unpacking heirloom-mailx (from .../heirloom-mailx_12.5-2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libc6-i386. Unpacking libc6-i386 (from .../libc6-i386_2.17-93ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ... Replaced by files in installed package libc6:i386 ... Selecting previously unselected package lib32z1. Unpacking lib32z1 (from .../lib32z1_1%3a1.2.8.dfsg-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libalgorithm-diff-perl. Unpacking libalgorithm-diff-perl (from .../libalgorithm-diff-perl_1.19.02-3_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl. Unpacking libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl (from .../libalgorithm-diff-xs-perl_0.04-2build3_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libalgorithm-merge-perl. Unpacking libalgorithm-merge-perl (from .../libalgorithm-merge-perl_0.08-2_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libsys-hostname-long-perl. Unpacking libsys-hostname-long-perl (from .../libsys-hostname-long-perl_1.4-2_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libmail-sendmail-perl. Unpacking libmail-sendmail-perl (from .../libmail-sendmail-perl_0.79.16-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libpod-plainer-perl. Unpacking libpod-plainer-perl (from .../libpod-plainer-perl_1.03-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package m4. Unpacking m4 (from .../archives/m4_1.4.16-5_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package ncurses-term. Unpacking ncurses-term (from .../ncurses-term_5.9+20130608-1ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package pax. Unpacking pax (from .../pax_1%3a20120606-2+deb7u1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package lsb-invalid-mta. Unpacking lsb-invalid-mta (from .../lsb-invalid-mta_4.1+Debian11ubuntu4_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package lsb-security. Unpacking lsb-security (from .../lsb-security_4.1+Debian11ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package lsb-core. Unpacking lsb-core (from .../lsb-core_4.1+Debian11ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package lsb-graphics. Unpacking lsb-graphics (from .../lsb-graphics_4.1+Debian11ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package lsb-cxx. Unpacking lsb-cxx (from .../lsb-cxx_4.1+Debian11ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package lsb-multimedia. Unpacking lsb-multimedia (from .../lsb-multimedia_4.1+Debian11ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package lsb-desktop. Unpacking lsb-desktop (from .../lsb-desktop_4.1+Debian11ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package lsb-printing. Unpacking lsb-printing (from .../lsb-printing_4.1+Debian11ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package lsb-languages. Unpacking lsb-languages (from .../lsb-languages_4.1+Debian11ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package lsb. Unpacking lsb (from .../lsb_4.1+Debian11ubuntu4_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package gutenprint. Unpacking gutenprint (from .../gutenprint_5.0.1-1lsb3.1_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process: Resource temporarily unavailable dpkg: error processing man-db (--unpack): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for doc-base ... Processing 1 added doc-base file... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot Processing triggers for install-info ... Errors were encountered while processing: man-db E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) florian@florian-aspireone:~$ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1196327 Title: package man-db 2.6.5-2 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/man-db/+bug/1196327/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs