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dictionaries-common package

dictionaries-common post-installation failed

Bug #1139114 reported by David Tombs
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Bug Description

During an upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 dictionaries-common post-installation failed with these lines in apt-term.log (full log attached):

Setting up dictionaries-common (1.12.10) ...
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/69-language-selector-ja-jp.conf", line 126: Having multiple values in <test> isn't supported and may not works as expected
[snip more Fontconfig warnings]
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

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: dictionaries-common 1.12.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-25.39-generic 3.5.7.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-25-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 1 22:30:33 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-11 (263 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: dictionaries-common
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2013-03-02 (0 days ago)

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David Tombs (dgtombs) wrote :
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David Tombs (dgtombs) wrote :

Running "sudo dpkg --configure --pending" results in the same error.

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David Tombs (dgtombs) wrote :

I ran /usr/share/debconf/fix_db.pl which made the following changes:
david@dreamon:/usr/share/debconf$ diff -u /var/cache/debconf/config.dat{-old,} | grep ^[+-]Name
+Name: popularity-contest/participate
+Name: popularity-contest/submiturls
+Name: shared/packages-wordlist
+Name: wamerican/languages
+Name: wbritish/languages
david@dreamon:/usr/share/debconf$ diff -u /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat{-old,} | grep ^[+-]Name
+Name: popularity-contest/participate
+Name: popularity-contest/submiturls
+Name: shared/packages-wordlist
+Name: wamerican/languages
+Name: wbritish/languages

And the error is fixed now. I think this is a dupe of bug 873551 except that was an upgrade from Natty to Oneirc (11.04 to 11.10). Should I mark this as a duplicate?

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