nspluginwrapper failed to install: segfault in post installation script

Bug #772830 reported by Wade Tattersall
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
nspluginwrapper (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

At conclusion of a Natty Narwhal upgrade from Meercat, the attached dialog was displayed. The system does appear to be in a usable state after a restart.

>lsb_release -a
LSB Version: core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty

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Wade Tattersall (wade-tattersall) wrote :
description: updated
description: updated
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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

Thanks for your report.

The error is
Looking for plugins in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

Segmentation fault

dpkg: error processing nspluginwrapper (--configure):

 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 139

Moving to nspluginwrapper

affects: update-manager (Ubuntu) → nspluginwrapper (Ubuntu)
Changed in nspluginwrapper (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Failure to install Natty Narwhal upgrade
+ nspluginwrapper failed to install: segfault in post installation script
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Stéphane Magnenat (stephane.magnenat) wrote :

Is it the same as bug #694137 ?

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Wade Tattersall (wade-tattersall) wrote :

Yes, it looks like it is the same as bug #694137, I have that error if I now try to reinstall flashplugin-installer.

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mcNisse (johan-erlands) wrote :

Does this bug depend on googletalkplugin? At least for me it was the culprit.

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Wade Tattersall (wade-tattersall) wrote :

That seems likely, the only other plugins I had were googletalkplugin and skype.

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