It looks like I have the same localepurge v0.6.1 bug in my old Debian system today:
# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: akregator amor ark blinken dpkg indi juk kaddressbook kalarm kalzium kalzium-data kamera kanagram kappfinder kate katomic kbattleship kblackbox kbounce kbruch kcalc kcharselect kcron kdeaccessibility kdeadmin kdeartwork kdeartwork-style kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-data kdeedu kdegames kdegraphics kdelirc kdemultimedia kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdenetwork kdepasswd kdepim kdepim-kresources kdepim-wizards kdessh kdetoys kdeutils kdewebdev kdf kfilereplace kfind kfloppy kgamma kgeography kgeography-data kget kgoldrunner kgpg khangman kig kimagemapeditor kiten kjots kjumpingcube kleopatra klettres klettres-data klines klinkstatus klipper kmag kmahjongg kmail kmines kmix kmousetool kmouth kmplot knetwalk knetworkconf knode knotes kolf kommander konq-plugins konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konquest konsole konsolekalendar kontact kopete korganizer kpackage kpat kpilot kppp krdc kreversi krfb kruler ksame kscd kscreensaver kshisen ksnapshot kspaceduel kstars kstars-data ksysguard ksysguardd kteatime ktimer ktouch ktron kttsd ktuberling kturtle ktux kuser kwalletmanager kweather kwordquiz kxsldbg libgstreamer0.10-0 librdf0 lskat The following packages will be upgraded: apache2.2-bin bash gir1.0-freedesktop gir1.0-glib-2.0 gkrellm-x86info libgirepository1.0-0 libpixman-1-0 libpixman-1-dev libreadline6 readline-common xfonts-encodings xfonts-scalable xorg-docs-core 13 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 124 not upgraded. Need to get 4,427kB of archives. After this operation, 250kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main bash 4.1-1 [1,269kB] Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main readline-common 6.1-1 [53.9kB] Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main libreadline6 6.1-1 [145kB] Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main apache2.2-bin 2.2.14-5 [1,307kB] Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main gir1.0-freedesktop 0.6.7-2 [14.6kB] Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main libgirepository1.0-0 0.6.7-2 [42.9kB] Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main gir1.0-glib-2.0 0.6.7-2 [120kB] Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main gkrellm-x86info 0.0.2-8 [6,010B] Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main libpixman-1-dev 0.16.4-1 [260kB] Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main libpixman-1-0 0.16.4-1 [236kB] Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main xfonts-encodings 1:1.0.3-1 [584kB] Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.1-1 [328kB] Get:13 http://ftp.debian.org testing/main xorg-docs-core 1:1.5-1 [61.0kB] Fetched 4,427kB in 8s (492kB/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Parsing Found/Fixed information... Done (Reading database ... 159131 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace bash 4.0-7 (using .../archives/bash_4.1-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement bash ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for menu ... Processing triggers for install-info ... install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/gnu-crypto.info.gz' Setting up bash (4.1-1) ... update-alternatives: using /usr/share/man/man7/bash-builtins.7.gz to provide /usr/share/man/man7/builtins.7.gz (builtins.7.gz) in auto mode. Processing triggers for menu ... (Reading database ... 159133 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace readline-common 6.0-5 (using .../readline-common_6.1-1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement readline-common ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for install-info ... install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `/usr/share/info/gnu-crypto.info.gz' Setting up readline-common (6.1-1) ... (Reading database ... 159133 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libreadline6 6.0-5 (using .../libreadline6_6.1-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libreadline6 ... Preparing to replace apache2.2-bin 2.2.14-4 (using .../apache2.2-bin_2.2.14-5_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement apache2.2-bin ... Preparing to replace gir1.0-freedesktop 0.6.5-4 (using .../gir1.0-freedesktop_0.6.7-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gir1.0-freedesktop ... Preparing to replace libgirepository1.0-0 0.6.5-4 (using .../libgirepository1.0-0_0.6.7-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libgirepository1.0-0 ... Preparing to replace gir1.0-glib-2.0 0.6.5-4 (using .../gir1.0-glib-2.0_0.6.7-2_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gir1.0-glib-2.0 ... Preparing to replace gkrellm-x86info 0.0.2-7 (using .../gkrellm-x86info_0.0.2-8_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gkrellm-x86info ... Preparing to replace libpixman-1-dev 0.16.2-1 (using .../libpixman-1-dev_0.16.4-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libpixman-1-dev ... Preparing to replace libpixman-1-0 0.16.2-1 (using .../libpixman-1-0_0.16.4-1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement libpixman-1-0 ... Preparing to replace xfonts-encodings 1:1.0.2-3 (using .../xfonts-encodings_1%3a1.0.3-1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xfonts-encodings ... Preparing to replace xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-7 (using .../xfonts-scalable_1%3a1.0.1-1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xfonts-scalable ... Preparing to replace xorg-docs-core 1:1.4-5 (using .../xorg-docs-core_1%3a1.5-1_all.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xorg-docs-core ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for fontconfig ... Setting up libreadline6 (6.1-1) ... Setting up apache2.2-bin (2.2.14-5) ... Setting up gir1.0-freedesktop (0.6.7-2) ... Setting up libgirepository1.0-0 (0.6.7-2) ... Setting up gir1.0-glib-2.0 (0.6.7-2) ... Setting up gkrellm-x86info (0.0.2-8) ... Setting up libpixman-1-0 (0.16.4-1) ... Setting up libpixman-1-dev (0.16.4-1) ... Setting up xfonts-encodings (1:1.0.3-1) ... Setting up xfonts-scalable (1:1.0.1-1) ... Setting up xorg-docs-core (1:1.5-1) ... E: Problem executing scripts DPkg::Post-Invoke 'if [ -x /usr/sbin/localepurge ] && [ $(ps w -p $PPID | grep -c remove) != 1 ]; then /usr/sbin/localepurge; else exit 0; fi' E: Sub-process returned an error code $ uname -a Linux FooBar 2.6.30-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Dec 4 00:53:20 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org