Also happens in Ubuntu 15.10 =================================================================================== root@quad:/tmp# apt-get install susv4 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: susv4 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 3146 B of archives. After this operation, 15,4 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://pt.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/multiverse susv4 all 7.20150719 [3146 B] Fetched 3146 B in 0s (41,2 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package susv4. (Reading database ... 561821 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../susv4_7.20150719_all.deb ... Unpacking susv4 (7.20150719) ... Processing triggers for doc-base (0.10.6) ... Processing 1 added doc-base file... Error in `/usr/share/doc-base/susv4', line 9: all `Format' sections are invalid. Note: `install-docs --verbose --check file_name' may give more details about the above error. Registering documents with scrollkeeper... Setting up susv4 (7.20150719) ... Fetching file... --2016-04-09 17:13:27-- http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/download/susv4tc1.tar.bz2 Resolving pubs.opengroup.org (pubs.opengroup.org)... 69.80.200.148 Connecting to pubs.opengroup.org (pubs.opengroup.org)|69.80.200.148|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 3638404 (3,5M) [application/x-bzip2] Saving to: ‘/tmp/tmp.mVoXoEprMc/susv4tc1.tar.bz2’
susv4tc1.tar.bz2 100%[======================================================>] 3,47M 566KB/s in 7,8s 2016-04-09 17:13:35 (454 KB/s) - ‘/tmp/tmp.mVoXoEprMc/susv4tc1.tar.bz2’ saved [3638404/3638404] Verifying SHA512 checksum... dpkg: error processing package susv4 (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: susv4 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) =================================================================================== I've pulled the pub package from the opengroup site with wget http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/download/susv4tc1.tar.bz2 It decompresses and extracts without errors, contents are aprently Ok. Checked the md5 & sha512 root@quad:/tmp# sha512sum susv4tc1.tar.bz2 a646544074cb13b891b71d83fbe65dc23665e4bce1fdef09931f3025229eb7225e2ff620f05646d48a0256d53c12c39282d155eba2d7bba3831ab1b87d7e640b susv4tc1.tar.bz2 root@quad:/tmp# md5sum susv4tc1.tar.bz2 f520ef9720d17dee5aa1684c177fedb8 susv4tc1.tar.bz2 Checked the post-install script of susv4 (/var/lib/dpkg/info/susv4.postinst) and it tests against SHA512SUM="00e3f7a4ac96e029e06ce712c9d8cf217747c0b68c5e62cc7562b14cd03beb59beb8aaba649076cc25799842cd2aa28d86a89a1615d95220a3a6c63717f883b9" =================================================================================== SHA512SUM in /var/lib/dpkg/info/susv4.postinst should be changed to a646544074cb13b891b71d83fbe65dc23665e4bce1fdef09931f3025229eb7225e2ff620f05646d48a0256d53c12c39282d155eba2d7bba3831ab1b87d7e640b -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1371162 Title: package susv4 (not installed) 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/sus/+bug/1371162/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs