It's not a bug in am-utils.  Your am-utils config mentions NIS, which is not the default, and you don't have NIS installed, so it doesn't start correctly.  Either install NIS as well, or fix your pre-existing am-utils config.

On 27 Jul 2012, at 15:45, Launchpad Bug Tracker <email address hidden> wrote:

> Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
> 
> ** Changed in: am-utils (Ubuntu)
>       Status: New => Confirmed
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/977962
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> Title:
>  package am-utils 6.2+rc20110530-3ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade:
>  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit
>  status 1
> 
> Status in “am-utils” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
> 
> Bug description:
>  System info:
>  Release: 12.04(precise) 32-bit
>  Kernel Linux 3.2.0-22-generic
>  GNOME 3.4.0
>  HP-HDX-16-Notebook
>  Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo CPU P7450 @ 2.13GHz x 2
> 
>  I just upgraded from the 11.10 release.  On it I could not get the am-
>  utils package to update or work properly.  I tried upgrading to the
>  12.04 but it hasn't fixed anything.  I've tried installing it from
>  terminal but it always comes up with this error:
> 
> 
>  sangie@angie-HP-HDX-16-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo apt-get install am-utils
>  [sudo] password for angie: 
>  Reading package lists... Done
>  Building dependency tree       
>  Reading state information... Done
>  am-utils is already the newest version.
>  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
>    python2.6-minimal python2.6
>  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
>  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 24 not upgraded.
>  1 not fully installed or removed.
>  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
>  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
>  Setting up am-utils (6.2+rc20110530-3ubuntu1) ...
>  /etc/init.d/am-utils: 1: /etc/init.d/am-utils: ypmatch: not found
>  /etc/init.d/am-utils: cannot find master map
>  invoke-rc.d: initscript am-utils, action "start" failed.
>  dpkg: error processing am-utils (--configure):
>   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>   am-utils
>  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>  angie@angie-HP-HDX-16-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo apt-get autoremove
>  Reading package lists... Done
>  Building dependency tree       
>  Reading state information... Done
>  The following packages will be REMOVED:
>    python2.6 python2.6-minimal
>  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 24 not upgraded.
>  1 not fully installed or removed.
>  After this operation, 12.9 MB disk space will be freed.
>  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
>  (Reading database ... 242923 files and directories currently installed.)
>  Removing python2.6 ...
>  Removing python2.6-minimal ...
>  Unlinking and removing bytecode for runtime python2.6
>  Processing triggers for man-db ...
>  Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
>  Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
>  Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
>  Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
>  Setting up am-utils (6.2+rc20110530-3ubuntu1) ...
>  /etc/init.d/am-utils: 1: /etc/init.d/am-utils: ypmatch: not found
>  /etc/init.d/am-utils: cannot find master map
>  invoke-rc.d: initscript am-utils, action "start" failed.
>  dpkg: error processing am-utils (--configure):
>   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>  No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
>                                                                Errors were encountered while processing:
>   am-utils
>  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
>  ProblemType: Package
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
>  Package: am-utils 6.2+rc20110530-3ubuntu1
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
>  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic i686
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>  ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
>  Architecture: i386
>  Date: Tue Apr 10 07:15:00 2012
>  ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
>  SourcePackage: am-utils
>  Title: package am-utils 6.2+rc20110530-3ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-09 (0 days ago)
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